"What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?"

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Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1997). “The Bedquilt and Other Stories”, p.29, University of Missouri Press

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#Stars Quotes #Ambition Quotes

“A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.”
“So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.”

Source : 'The World's Need'
“In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .”
“The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.”
“Who are we to ask God if it is his will.”
“Be happy and comfortable with who you are, whoever it may be.”
“You will always exist in the universe in one form or another.”
“Jazz is America's classical music.”

Source : "Dr. Billy Taylor, 90th birthday anniversary: Interview". Interview with Ted Panken, tedpanken.wordpress.com. October 14, 1999.

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