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  • Al Sharpton The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Lin Yü-tang The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
    Lin Yü-tang
    Chinese writer (1895 - 1976)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • E. B. White The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Samuel Johnson The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Mark Twain The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
    Following the Equator (1897)
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Confucius The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • William Shakespeare There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Anthony Robbins To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Ben Jonson To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • La Harpe To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.
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  • Booker T. Washington To those of my race who... underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say, 'Cast down your bucket where you are'—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.
    Address at Atlanta International Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 18 September 1895
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships... the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Quentin Crisp Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
    Manners from Heaven: A Divine Guide to Good Behaviour (1984) ch. 7
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • William Cowper Variety is the very spice of live, I that gives it all its flavour.
    The Timepiece 606
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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