Garrison Wynn Quotes
The smartest people in the world are not in charge, they work for the action takers.
Garrison Wynn
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Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.
J. L. Austin
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Ah what avails the sceptered race,Ah what the form divine!
Walter Savage Landor
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Ah, Los Angeles. One disaster after another, always has been.
Kage Baker
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It was as easy to be alone with six kin as it is to be alone by yourself, and maybe easier.
Tanith Lee
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Petal, like a persistent song phrase, like a few stubborn lines of verse memorized in childhood. The needle was stuck.
Annie Proulx
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I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.
Claire McCaskill
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Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.
Ella Baker
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Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.
Jenny Zhang
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Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.
Nancy Gibbs
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There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
J. C. Ryle
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The smartest people in the world are not in charge, they work for the action takers.
Garrison Wynn