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“Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.”

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Dutch Christian missionary and author, known for her role in helping Jews escape Nazi persecution during World War II. Corrie Ten Boom is renowned for her book 'The Hiding Place', which tells her own story and faith. more

“I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.”

“It's time we become comfortable with the uncomfortable conversations about race...Instead of being color blind, we need to be color brave.”

Needs Race Color Conversation Comfortable Racism Blind Brave African American Uncomfortable

Author:Mellody Hobson

“Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.”

Art Mass Advertising Corporate Consumption Mass Consumption

Book:Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music

Source: Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music

“Bad promises are better broken than kept.”

Broken Promise

Book:Great Speeches

Source: Great Speeches

“A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.”

World States Stories Community Four Identity Building London Thirty Stability Centre Grey Motto Shields Conditioning Entrances Squat Brave New World Freedom

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

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