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America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#america #been #certain #commitment #commitments

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#compassion #cow #detail #examination #experience

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#county #courage #diverse #eloquence #find

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#adding #american #american experience #broader #complexity

Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame. ↗

— Andrew Garfield

#attractive #bad #doing #fame #money

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#any #commerce #controls #country #industry

I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart. ↗

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

#bottom #deepest #heart #i #utter

Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country. ↗

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

#country #credit #deserved #duties #families

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence. ↗

— Helen Garner

#disturbed #i #very #violence #women

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground. ↗

— Helen Garner

#both #completely #consciously #contested #doing