A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Hand, Hands, Integrity, Needs, Pure

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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

Know, Long Ago, Sat, Waiting, World

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.

Heart, Love, Marble, Men, Passion, Reality

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

Caresses, Die, Expression, Love, Roots

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.

Befallen, Men, Seldom, Serious, Sufferer, Thinking

I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.

Come, Fine, Nature, Nonsense, See, Trying

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Identity has several parts, and the self needs to expand. Black youth should be encouraged to have as many parts or as rich an identity as possible. It's a form of allowing them to be curious about the world.

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Dale Jamieson

Most "process" philosophy is historicist (e. g. , Hegel) and not concerned with "deep time. " Maybe Whitehead is an exception. He may be a really important philosopher for all I know. I've never been able to read him.

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John F. Kerry

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Bill Watterson

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

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Bryant Gumbel

You'll never see me working five days a week again.

Five, See, Week, Working