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«America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
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«Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.»
«America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
description, prophecy, recognise, strands, woven
«Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it? I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;... In every man there is something which to a certain degree prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself; and this may be the case in so high a degree, he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself. But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
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«Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
counsel, fabric, real life, woven
«Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
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«America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| Keywords:
blanket, blanketed, blankets, cloth, cloths, thread, woven
«Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
fits, fresh, incomparably, prediction, predictions, shirt, tightly, tissue, tissues, twenty-four, twenty-four hours, waking, woven
«And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons, / And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen, / And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses.»
«A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Hope
| Keywords:
annihilate, annihilates, hopes, shadow, sunbeams, weaves, weaving, wove, woven
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