Quotes 41 till 60 of 2067.
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By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.
Dick Gregory
African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer and entrepreneur (1932 - 2017) -
Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.
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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
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Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.
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Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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Epigenetics doesn't change the genetic code, it changes how that's read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won't be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure.
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Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
Zimbabwe -
Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
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From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend on reading it.
Life (9 geb. 1962), over Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge van S.J. Perelman -
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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Happiness, satisfaction, and success in life depend on making the right choices, the winning choices. There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.
Wings of Fire -
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
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