Quotes 721 till 740 of 25323.
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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
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If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
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If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk.
Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 222 -
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who can not, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
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Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth. It all goes back to Adam and Eve a story which shows... that if you make a woman out of man, you are bound to get into trouble.
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In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.
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In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
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In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.
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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
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In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.
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In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.
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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
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