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		Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nate Parker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carl Sandburg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Garrett Hardin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				T. E. Lawrence 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Kirn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Olympia Brown 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				S. E. Hinton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yolanda Adams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one of our great collective female shortcomings to presume that whatever we do not perceive simply isn't there, or that whatever is not communicated in our language is not intelligible speech. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Norah Vincent 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zadie Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I'm sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a minor league system that still were not good enough to play in the major NBA. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bobby Knight 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and-we will not say fled; firstly, because it is an ignoble term, and, secondly, because Mr. Pickwick's figure was by no means adapted for that mode of retreat-he trotted away, at as quick a rate as his legs would convey him;. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charles Dickens 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nate Parker