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• For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Beauty, Class, People

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.43, Northwestern University Press

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• We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we need to feel sad, anxious and anguished. If we impulsively protect ourselves and our children, as the feel-good movement suggests, we deprive them of learning-persistence skills.

  Martin Seligman

  Children, Persistence, Skills

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• There is also the danger in our culture that because a person is called upon to give public statements and is acclaimed by the establishment, such a person gets to the point of believing that he is the movement.

  Ella Baker

  Believe, Giving, Culture

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• Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.

  Paul Twitchell

  Self, Spirit, Recognition

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• 1-Don't analyze. 2-Don't complain. 3-Don't compare yourself to others. 4-Don't expect things to be done for you. 5-Don't expect perfection in the relative. 6-Look to the knowledge aspect daily. 7-Own the movement. 8-Problems are all in your head. 9-Hold yourself together.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Perfection, Together, Complaining

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• Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International.

  James P. Cannon

  Revolution, Doctrine, Restoration

  James P. Cannon (2002). “History of American Trotskyism, The, 1928-38: Report of a Participant”

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• But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Sympathy, Strong, Elude You

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• Scaling back the campaign finance reform bill may get more Republicans aboard, but it leaves many of us who have been involved in the reform movement for years in believing that we are doing something and accomplishing nothing.

  Robert Torricelli

  Believe, Years, Reform

  "Senate to take up softened campaign finance reform" by Jonathan Karl, www.cnn.com. October 12, 1999.

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• In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. The majority - the mob and occasionally the lynch mob - ruled.

  Neal Boortz

  Rights, Civilization, White

  Neal Boortz (1998). “The Terrible Truth about Liberals”, p.56, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Country, Balance, Today

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• The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Children, Women, Struggle

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• You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

  Michael Scott

  Art, Might, Lasts

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• You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living things. A tree seldom if ever encroaches upon the liberty of another tree. It never wastes its growth in unnecessary twistings.

  John F. Carlson

  Tree, Understanding, Growth

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.94, Courier Corporation

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• Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

  John F. Carlson

  Clouds, Elements, Landscape

  John F. Carlson (1973). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.

  Graham Collier

  Artist, Men, Emotional

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• We live in the age of "Everything Has Rights." Now, I'm not denying that the concept of rights is valid, but I wonder … whatever happened to obligations? One rarely hears the term anymore. Indeed, have you ever heard of a "human obligations movement?" … The very ideal that holds a democracy together--the willingness to make personal sacrifice for the common good--is going quickly by the wayside.

  John Rosemond

  Responsibility, Sacrifice, Rights

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• Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

  Matthew Arnold

  Death, Dark, Soul

  Matthew Arnold (1889). “Poems”

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• The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.

  Orson Welles

  Jobs, Night, Yawning

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• Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful Negroes, who have preferred to give away their fortunes to members of other races, than to bequeath them to worthy institutions and movements of their own to help their own people.

  Marcus Garvey

  Successful, Race, Years

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, The Majority Press

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• The movement must go beyond its leaders

  Philip Vera Cruz

  Leader

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• America already holds the record for freak movements. Now we have a new one. It's called "Restoring Confidence." Rich men who never had a mission in life outside of watching a stock ticker are working day and night "restoring confidence." Writers are working night shifts, speakers' tables are littered up, ministers are preaching statistics, all on "restoring confidence."

  Will Rogers

  Business, Night, Men

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Now I am not unpatriotic, and I want to do my bit, so I hereby offer my services to my President, my country and my friends to do anything, outside of serving on a commission, that I can in this great movement. But you will have to give me some idea of where "confidence" is. And just who you want it restored to.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Business, Ideas

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles and American institutions. It is a wicked thing either to support or oppose a man because of the creed he possesses. . . . Such a movement directly contravenes the spirit of the Constitution itself.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Religious, Men, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.358, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the public by the proper government authorities will not succeed, in my judgment, in checking the progress of the movement. But if they did succeed they would find that they had sown the wind and would surely reap the whirlwind, for they would ultimately provoke the violent excesses which accompany a reform coming by convulsion instead of by steady and natural growth.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Business, Men, Wind

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• There will be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you choose to do, and there will be a grace and power present in all of your movements.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Perfect, Grace

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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