"The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion."

-- La Meri

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“I've had it where things didn't go well for me with movies or something that got canceled.”
“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”
“The most important part of living life on your own terms and having it all is having faith and belief in yourself and in the intelligent power that created you.”

Source : "Arrowsmith". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1925.
“In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.”
“To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.”
“By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites. Eighty percent for blacks. Notice for all the disadvantages blacks labored under, four of five were still literate. Six decades later, at the end of the 20th century, the National Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of Educational Progress say 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of whites can't read at all. Put another way, black illiteracy doubled, white illiteracy quadrupled, despite the fact that we spend three or four times as much real money on schooling as we did 60 years ago.”
“Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.”
“Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.”

Source : BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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