Russell Banks Quotes
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One hates a person for the same reason one loves him
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Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.
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We are not buried in history, but surrounded by it. You can't avoid our behavior being shaped by it, to a considerable degree. We have this fantasy that we are free of history. This allows us not to see the circumstances, the historical circumstances of other people.
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If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter.
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Motivations are too tangled and complex.
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The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.
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Russell Banks