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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

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There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason. ↗

— John Astin

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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. ↗

— Jane Austen

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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

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Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it. ↗

— Bill Ayers

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I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#always #connection #get #i #jazz

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

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When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff. ↗

— Antony Beevor

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I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible. ↗

— Robert Benton

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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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