Quotes 161 till 180 of 308.
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Our idea of a cultured person is a person who doesn't want to live in a community of cultured persons.
Source: Every day is saturday -
Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.
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People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
Source: Rolling Stone Interview, 1988 -
Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
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Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
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Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
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Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
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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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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.
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Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.
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Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.
Source: Race Journal of Discourses, vol. 10, p. 110. -
Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
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Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
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Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
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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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So without an original or helpful thought in my head, I just sat for some minutes and watched these poor disconnected people shuffle past. Then I did what most white Australians do. I read my newspaper and drank my coffee and didn't see them anymore.
Source: In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000) -
Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
Source: Barbara Bush: A Memoir
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