With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. … - Peter Abrahams

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Ónen i-estel edain, ú-chebin estel anim. (I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept none for myself. ) (Gilraen's linnod)

Peter Abrahams

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

Book, Born, Consciousness, Dream, Know, Self

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You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

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The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

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To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.

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To get where you want to go, you can't only do what you like.

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To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

Ónen i-estel edain, ú-chebin estel anim. (I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept none for myself. ) (Gilraen's linnod)

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Curtis Jackson

When you walk in your home you don't have to maintain the same attitude that you had out in the street. You can be different with your people and your family than you are with a person that you run into in the hood. Even them they have to know to respond to you differently in the hood cuz if people see something out of the character that they portray you. They'll try you.

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In Cambodian culture the male figure in the family is important; when you lose your husband you lose your economic ability to survive.

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