As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

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Author: Carter G. Woodson

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You don't learn from successes you don't learn from awards you don't learn from celebrity you only l

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And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my M

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The fool will teach ere he has learned, and his very servants scorn him.

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Your thoughts, beliefs, and interpretations initiate and largely determine how you experience your r

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I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches,

Author: Ricky Williams
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The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and

Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
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... Physicians tell us of hectic fever, that in its beginning it is easy to cure, but hard to recogn

Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
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God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see

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Living closer to the center of our being is the practice of a lifetime, but so, too, is skillfully l

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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and

Author: Jane Austen
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Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Author: Jalaluddin Rumi
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While the big events of our lives create the impetus for change, it is the moment-by- moment choices

Author: Karen Kimsey-House
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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Author: Georges Carpentier
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If the world were a logical place men would ride sidesaddle.

Author: Rita Mae Brown
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Things do not give unhappiness, ignorance (of one’s real Self) does.

Author: Dada Bhagwan
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Love life comes last in my life. I put real life first.

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When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather t

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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

Author: Jorge Luis Borges
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He's so old his social security number is two digits.

Author: Brian Morgan
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Let’s put to rest one cliché. You can sell refrigerators to Eskimos. The people of Savoonga are Yupi

Author: Gene Weingarten
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Stone, steel, dominions pass,Faith too, no wonder;So leave alone the grassThat I am under.

Author: A.E. Housman
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I will never stop loving you, I know it’s a cliché but it’s damn true.

Author: Annie Fisher
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It takes a village to build success in publishing a book - it takes friends that are willing to help

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Hopefully by next week the classes will have paid off and I'll be cooking gourmet.""Gourmet? From yo

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We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fair

Author: Brian Wicker
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I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

Author: James Nachtwey
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Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.

Author: Deena Metzger
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The darker it gets, the brighter your dreams shine.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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Overcoming obstacles requires commitment and strength. Despite all odds, face each journey with cour

Author: Lorna Jackie Wilson
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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They think they’re runnin’ the country but all they’re doin’ is writin’ the reports.” From Homestead

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And because no one answered or cared and a conversation went on without her she felt profoundly lone

Author: Elizabeth Bowen
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Wouldn't it be ironic if everyone who got a radio up and running just sat around waiting for everyon

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It comes true because we're wise, dear.

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I'd seen entire constellations of possibility I'd never previously been aware of, so blinded had I b

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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be;

Author: Winston S. Churchill
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When “doctrinal integrity” (a term usually defined by those using it) trumps kindness and grace, fai

Author: Ronnie McBrayer
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Everything was so much sharper without the Link fogging me--sights, sounds, smells. It was exhilarat

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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the

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Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills

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Every part of you is a master intelligence and is speaking truth to you, and through you, at all tim

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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his s

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I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional

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God is a God of purpose. He doesn't wake-up and start dabbling into things; He doesn't practice tria

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Be strong and courageous to take risks.Without trying and taking risks, you will miss great opportun

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The power which resides in man is new in nature and none but he knows what that is which he can do

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The only substance that goes in and never leaves, are words

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If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When n

Author: Anne Lamott
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Deep down, I think everybody wants to be ‘the one’ to someone. I don’t know if I’ve ever been that p

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I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything.

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Saddam's politics was the politics of the thug, of violence from the outset of his reign. Realism su

Author: Jan Narveson
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The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.

Author: Oprah Winfrey
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A story is a wedding in which we listeners are the groom watching the bride coming up the aisle. It

Author: Yann Martel
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Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.

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Dance with the one that brought you

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The past is only making you to spill tears, tears of joy or tears pain. But anyway they are making y

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They say that if you really want to kill yourself, no one can stop you. There are too many ways to d

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Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

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The power of knowing, in that first two seconds, is not a gift given magically to a fortunate few. I

Author: Malcolm Gladwell
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You are nothing but your consciousness. That consciousness is universal.

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I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch

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Our creator is one. However you name him. Whatever you call him. He is the only one having 99 names.

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Success depends on your attitude

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There you go, Harry!” Ron shouted over the noise. “You weren’t being thick after all — you were show

Author: J.K. Rowling
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Oh, for heaven’s sake, Sirius, Dumbledore said no!”A bearlike black dog had appeared at Harry’s side

Author: J.K. Rowling
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The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete consume-consume style o

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Simply put, this is one insight we heard echoed by tens of thousands of great managers: People don't

Author: Marcus Buckingham
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Love isn't a feeling. It's much deeper than that. Yes, it's a choice, but there's also a necessity t

Author: K.R. Grace
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When you’re very young and you’re different, you begin to believe that no one has ever been as diffe

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Happiness depends on perception, not on possessions.

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No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.

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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end

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God wants the simplicity and accessibility of Jesus Christ to be your main quality

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Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium

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Life is less a burden without an absolute quest for material possessions

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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.", July/Aug. 2002, V

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Why bother getting married, going through all the pomp and pageantry, if you didn't think it was goi

Author: Emma Straub
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The truth is never dressed for the occasion.

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Man is the question he asks about himself, before any question has been formulated. It is, therefore

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I'm sorry I'm so pathetic," he thought, and then realized he had also said it.Beth laughed, so light

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Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy;

Author: Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space and yet nothing troubles me less.

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What has gone catastrophically wrong in England and the States is that for 30 years we've lost the a

Author: Tony Judt
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She knew what he had in mind.He'll propose in Scotland on my birthday.There was no doubt as to what

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Eran gentes de vidas lentas, a las cuales no se les veía volverse viejas, ni enfermarse ni morir, si

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Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is ins

Author: Dalai Lama XIV
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In the face of great challenges, you can choose to live reactively as a victim, or choose to proacti

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Looks like my superpowers don’t come with automatic manicures, thank heaven. I hate long nails.

Author: Jennifer Silverwood
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Humble yourself, and you will find that Love is spreading a carpet of flowers beneath your feet.

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His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not

Author: Warsan Shire
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You can never explain it. At its best, you can only feel love and beauty.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Preach the word be instant in season out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long sufferin

Author: Anonymous
Quote #365698

Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter.

Author: Pablo Neruda
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You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them

Author: Idries Shah
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A house divided cannot stand.

Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Time is a strange storyteller. It writes, erases and rewrites endlessly. Things change, places and p

Author: Vandana Shanker
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I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights c

Author: Tom Robbins
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Forget politics and what their platforms were and everything, because you can take whoever you want

Author: Terry Bradshaw
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Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die w

Author: Gabriel García Márquez