Quotes 421 till 440 of 661.
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Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.
The Abolition of Work and Other Essays (1986) -
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
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Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.
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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'
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Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.
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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
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Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but passé. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
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Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
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So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
The Nature of Space and Time (1996) -
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
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So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects.
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So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.
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So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.
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