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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

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I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#actually #am #being #character #color

What I like about film is it explores imperfections. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

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This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty. ↗

— Maxine Waters

#approach #change #color #deal #every

Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best. ↗

— Mary Webb

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Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff. ↗

— Len Wein

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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children. ↗

— Randi Weingarten

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Frodo: I can't recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. I'm naked in the dark. There's nothing--no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I can see him with my waking eyes. Sam: Then let us be rid of it, once and for all. I can't carry the ring for you, but I can carry you! Comeon! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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Come, let it pass then,' said Frodo. 'But now we seem to have come to the point, you and I, Smeagol. Tell me. Can we find the rest of the way by ourselves? We're in sight of the pass, of a way in, and if we can find it now, then I suppose our agreement can be said to be over. You have done what you promised, and you're free: free to go back to food and rest, wherever you wish to go, except to servants of the Enemy. And one day I may reward you, I or those that remember me.' 'No, no, not yet,' Gollum whined. 'O no! They can't find the way themselves, can they? O no indeed. There's the tunnel coming. Smeagol must go on. No rest. No food. Not yet. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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