Quotes 421 till 440 of 8429.
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... no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.
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...when a society is reaching its end, in the last couple of centuries you have... a misplacement of satisfactions. You find your emotional satisfaction in making a lot of money... or in proving to the poor, half-naked people in Southeast Asia that you can kill them in large numbers.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
A ''just war'' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
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A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.
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A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.
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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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A canner exceedingly canny
One morning remarked to his granny:
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Anything that he can
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A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.
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A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.
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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
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A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
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A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
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A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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