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My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think. ↗

— Holly Near

#encouraged #get #how #learn #life

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain. ↗

— Holly Near

#blessing #extraordinary #kind #pain #real

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'. ↗

— Holly Near

#concert #female #hear #lot #make

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner. ↗

— Holly Near

#great #had #i #like #living

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under. ↗

— Holly Near

#interested #keep #ourselves #relative #sucked

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs. ↗

— Holly Near

#comes #concerts #hope #i #see

When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained. ↗

— Holly Near

#demonstration #i #kent #killed #stage

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people. ↗

— Holly Near

#journey #longer #many #men #people

We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy. ↗

— Scott Nearing

#another day #believed #better #bills #borrowing

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible. ↗

— Richard J. Needham

#given #her #irresponsible #life #love