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When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just resonating about our special-ness in the universe. And I always say you're in trouble if you get too far away from that core that grounds you.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, ''That is the real thing.''
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When the entrepreneur is obsessed with the product and the company has organized all of its activities around that, it's very powerful.
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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
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When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
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When the insects take over the world we hope they will remember, with gratitude, how we took them along on all our picnics.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.
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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow - to the end at all costs.
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When the mind, body, and spirit work together, I believe anything is possible.
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When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.
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When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
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When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.
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When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.
― Franklin Pierce Adams
American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960) -
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
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When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.
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When the scenes are written really great, we as actors try not to mess them up by getting in the way.
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When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently.
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When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we sent them guns. Now that they are falling down dead from starvation, we send them troops. Some may see in this a tidy metaphor for the entire relationship between north and south. But it would make a whole lot more sense nutritionally - as well as providing infinitely more vivid viewing - if the Somalians could be persuaded to eat the troops.
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