Privilege Quotes
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It's an honor and privilege to be next to the great mysteries, and that's what I get to do every day. Why are we here? How beautiful the Earth is. Whatever it is, large and small. There's so much that's beautiful and moving and sad, to experience that and find shapes for it, to deeply enter that meditative space. There's nothing like it. Everything else seems so pale.
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Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
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The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more than a remnant of the old leaven of slavery. It is necessarily destructive of refined love; for how can a man continue to regard as his type of the ideal a being whom he has, be denying an equality of privilege with himself, degraded to something below himself?
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In addition to being in constant communion with God, we are to spend regular periods of time in focused, one-on-one interaction with our Creator. And what a privilege! To have access to the throne room of heaven anytime we choose is a divine benefit we should not ignore.
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People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.
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I'm sure you know a lot of people who were born into privilege and amounted to absolutely nothing. We all have greatness within us. So it is really important for everyone to figure out what God put us on Earth to do, and steer clear of the seven pervasive lies that often blindside people.
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It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.
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Saving for the future shouldn't be a privilege for the wealthy.
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Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.
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Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.
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My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
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I strongly believe that quality healthcare is a right all Americans deserve, not a privilege.
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I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.
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Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.
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If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him, to guard him against danger, to fight against his enemies.
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There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.
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Your privilege is comprised of the questions you’ve never had to ask.
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It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.
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There is a consciousness as an agent of one's own destiny as a person in America, there are things that can be done, there are advantages and benefits which exist that are directly related to - and even rest upon - white privilege.
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To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
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I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.
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Losing privilege can feel a lot like inequality. If something feels unfair to you as a white person, it's likely that equality is actually being achieved in that moment.
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Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.
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If you say you’re going to trust your man, then trust your man. Don’t revoke that privilege when he needs it most.
