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Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. ↗

— James Baldwin

#beliefs #confronted #driven #equal #excesses

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

#hearing #people #platitude #repeated #simply

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian. ↗

— James Baldwin

#find #five #gary #great #indian

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. ↗

— James Baldwin

#admire #america #because #been #his

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. ↗

— James Baldwin

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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. ↗

— George Bancroft

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I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

#chalk #cliffs #day #defense #dover

I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight. ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#believe #class #courage #decided #deliver