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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values. – Ralph Ellison

Other quotes by Ralph Ellison

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. – Ralph Ellison

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Fairy Tales
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The understanding of art depends finally upon ones willingness to extend ones humanity and ones knowledge of human life. – Ralph Ellison

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Knowledge
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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. – Ralph Ellison

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communication
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I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if its wrong – so we can work through it. – Bethenny Frankel

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But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the films about. A very straightforward young woman whos very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of. – Jenny Agutter

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A relationship is lovely if youre happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But theres nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest. – Susannah York

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Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims? – John O. Brennan

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Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores – more than abundantly – what it takes away. – Jim Elliot

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A horse is poetry in motion. – Author Unknown

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Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. – Steve Jobs

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So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology. – Daniel Yergin

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