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Du BOIS, W.E.B.

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, W.E. Burghardt DuBois, WEB DuBois, W.E.B. Du Bois

23 February 1868 – 27 August 1963

Birthplace: Great Barrington, Massachusetts

American author, educator, sociologist & civil rights leader

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Du BOIS, W.E.B.

W.E.B. DU BOIS – American author, educator, sociologist & civil rights leader – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE

American Business Leaders Directors & Producers Massachusetts (birthplace)

DUBUC, Nancy

NANCY DUBUC – American business leader, media company CEO – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE

American Authors New York (birthplace) Poets

CitationContextSource LinkCitation “It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” ~Max Eastman, American author & editor Enjoyment of Laughter (1936) New York: Simon & Schuster, 1936, 8th printing, p. 36; online via Open Library [free subscription service] openlibrary.org Context Extended excerpt [Eastman, sharing his ‘amateur opinion’ that ‘apes have a rudimentary sense of humor.']: “He has at least enough feeling for a playful trick to understand that he has been teased and not attacked. It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” (pp. 36-37) Source Link Source

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EBERT, Roger

CitationContextSource LinkCitation “Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.” ~Roger Ebert, American journalist & film critic From Ebert's response to the question “In facing your own mortality, what final message would you leave for future generations?” in “11th Hour “Roger Ebert” (1994) Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Denver, CO; The 11th Hour, Samuel A. Safarian & KBDI-TV, online via Colorado Public Television, video.cpt12.org Context Extended excerpt: [Address to live & television audience. Ebert is discussing the greater need for empathy. Transcript via Repeat Right.]: “Art, is of course, many things but I believe its most important role is to give form to

American Authors Educators Massachusetts (birthplace)

EDMUNDSON, Mark

CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play – work you do so easily that it restores you as you go.” ~Mark Edmundson, American author & educator Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education (2013) New York, NY: Bloomsbury, p. 66 Context Extended excerpt [Non-fiction.]: “Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play – work you do so easily that it restores you as you go. Randall Jarrell once said that if he were a rich man, he would pay money to teach poetry to students. (I would, too, for what

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FABER, Frederick

Frederick Faber

American Authors Civil Rights Activists & Humanitarians Commentators, Critics & Pundits Educators Kansas (birthplace)

FISHER, Dorothy Canfield

DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER – Author Quotes

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FLEXNER, Abraham

ABRAHAM FLEXNER – Author Quotes

American Authors Connecticut (birthplace)

GILBERT, Elizabeth

CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it’s more like love’s shady second cousin who’s always borrowing money and can’t hold down a job.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert, American author Committed: A Love Story (2010) London: Bloomsbury, 2010, p. 101 Context Extended excerpt [From chapter four – ‘Marriage and Infatuation’]: “The problem with infatuation, of course, is that it’s a mirage, a trick of the eye – indeed, a trick of the endocrine system. Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it’s more like love’s shady second cousin who’s always borrowing money and can’t hold down a job. When you become infatuated with somebody, you’re not

American Authors Educators Pennsylvania (birthplace) Poets

GILBERT, Jack

CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope?” ~Jack Gilbert, American author “The Abandoned Valley” (11 March 2005) Refusing Heaven, New York: Borzoi Book, 13 March 2007 edition, p. 25 Context Extended excerpt [Full poem cited.]: “Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope?” (p. 25)