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The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation. ↗

— Bobby Seale

#black community #community #destiny #determine #dissertation

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#distinguish #fiction #i #inferiority #nonfiction

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#determined #few #leaders #majority #make

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action. ↗

— Stanley Milgram

#chain #easy #ignore #intermediate #link

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#being #determining #earth #heavenly #him

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'. ↗

— Joan Miro

#called #cross #described #eloquence #equivalent

It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#his #house #lincoln #nothing #practically

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#character #determined #experiences #had #lack

If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan. ↗

— Claire Cook

#life-lesson #life

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems. ↗

— George Oppen

#derived #discrete #each #empirically #fragmentary