#awaken

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution. ↗

— Ted Cruz

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You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition. ↗

— James Allen

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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. ↗

— Isoroku Yamamoto

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For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped. ↗

— Patty Hearst

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I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening. ↗

— Bill Hybels

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A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, first one decade and then another, can she locate the actual, historical stream, see the setting of her dreaming private life—the nation, the city, the neighborhood, the house where the family lives—as an actual project under way, a project living people willed, and made well or failed, and are still making, herself among them. I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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