"Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us."

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Source : David Riesman (1950). “The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character”

David Riesman

“We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.”
“Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.”
“Do you know how happiness begins? It begins with no longer being afraid.”

Source : Guus Kuijer (2012). “The Book of Everything”, p.22, Scholastic Inc.
“song of elli (old age) "What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain What is gone is gone... What is sea-born dies on land, Soft is trod upon. What is given burns the hand - What is gone is gone... Here is there, and high is low; All may be undone. What is true, no two men know - What is gone is gone... Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose - What is gone is gone.”
“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”

Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
“Throughout the whole Stroll album, I'm breaking barriers. Whether I'm doing acoustic hip-hop, singing my own hooks or singing my own verses... There's always going to be people who don't like it, cause they're stuck in their ways, or they just don't like you in general... but it's been good.”
“Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin. Note: For Hyrum Smith's other ideas which he regards as pertinent to Success, see Topics: Character, Charity, Goals, Humility, Peace of Mind, Sacrifice, Success-Change-Personal Growth, Success-Change-Constructive Imagination, Wisdom”
“America will not reject abortion until America sees abortion.”

Source : "New VIDEO: Worker Describes 'Picking' Apart Baby with Tweezers at Planned Parenthood" by Katie Yoder, www.newsbusters.org. July 28, 2015.

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