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I'm all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it's unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial.
Ruth Negga
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Conversations
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I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.
Jacques Derrida
After
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Ashamed
Back
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Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.
Jacques Derrida
Decide
Gaze
Like
Look
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What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.
Jamaica Kincaid
Became
Brother
Distinguished
Her
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When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.
Jamaica Kincaid
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Garden
Ground
I Think
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The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
Robertson Davies
Age
Book
Depends
Experience
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Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.
Robertson Davies
Been
Did
Die
Lucky
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Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
Robertson Davies
Attacked
Dog
Every
Fewer
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You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
Life
Moments
Truly
Have done
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The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
Henry James
Superiority
Man's opinion
Never
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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.
Henry Kissinger
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Tendency
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Problem
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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget
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ONLY BELIEVE, even when it looks impossible to you, BELIEVE. God can do ANYTHING.
Mary Bushiri
Believe
Impossible
Anything
God
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Our God is too faithful & when you seek Him, you find Him. All we need in this life is in the Bible. The word of God has everything
Mary Bushiri
God
Faithful
Seek him
Find him
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The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
Jamaica Kincaid
Appreciate
Garden
Live
Me
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I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.
Jamaica Kincaid
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When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.
Jamaica Kincaid
Always
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Culture
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I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.
Jamaica Kincaid
Actually
Anywhere
Children
Did
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One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.
Jamaica Kincaid
Alive
Because
Born
Breathe
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I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.
Jamaica Kincaid
Charlotte
Little
Loved
People
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I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety.
Jamaica Kincaid
Age
Anxiety
Any
Anything
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When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show.
Jamaica Kincaid
Absolutely
Always
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Bullying
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When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be interested in the earth if you live in a place like this. I started to read a lot of geology, much to the horror of my friends.
Jamaica Kincaid
Became
California
Earth
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The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
James A. Michener
Confuse
Defeat
Dreams
Life
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James A. Michener
Afraid
Courage
Know
Ought
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I am the product of the American education system. It is a system that has always been on the lookout for bright boys and girls. It spotted me when I was 14, and I owe a tremendous debt to my alma mater.
James A. Michener
Always
Am
American
Been
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I attended seminars where many social issues were discussed abstractly, outside the pressures of an immediate situation, and there I developed certain attitudes which permitted me to face the real thing when it came along.
James A. Michener
Along
Attended
Attitudes
Came
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When I first pitched my Navy tent on the island of Espiritu Santo to the north of Vila, the natives on nearby Malakula were cannibals. Today, they have representation in the United Nations.
James A. Michener
Cannibals
First
Island
Nations
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Whenever I start a book, I swear it's going to be a short one. But then it's, 'Who was his grandfather? And how did he get there in the first place? And what kind of animals is he chasing?'
James A. Michener
Animals
Book
Chasing
Did
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When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.
James Allen
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Channels
Easy
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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
James Brown
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Church
Does
Find
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Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.
James Brown
Award
Back
Cause
Crying
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When God took it, he accepted it; when he brought it back, he accepted it. That's what's happening with me.
James Brown
Accepted
Back
Brought
God
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When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will solve any of our problems.
Ron Paul
Any
Badly
Believe
Border
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Ron Paul
Challenge
Government
Patriotism
Real
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Ron Paul
Always
Class
Currency
Destroys
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Ron Paul
Alternatives
Dollar
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When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.
Robert Duvall
Anything
Could
Knew
Nothing
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I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so big that I question how the human bladder can deal with the intake.
Roger Ebert
Big
Bladder
Bottle
Came
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On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.
Roger Ebert
Ancient
Beautiful
Evolved
Gone
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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
Henry Ward Beecher
Nation
Young men
Funeral bell
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When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.
Ron Chernow
Across
America
Been
Came
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I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.
Roger Ebert
About
Contemplate
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When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise.
Ron Chernow
Blind
Going
Holes
Just
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A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.
Ron Chernow
Bull
BullMarket
Crash
Long
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What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred
Herb Brooks
Courage
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Quality
Man
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Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher
Herb Brooks
Start
Issuing you
Challenge
Better
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Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems attainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher.
Herb Brooks
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Start
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Goal
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Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.
Rosa Luxemburg
Believe
Cause
Colour
Deeply
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We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
Herbert Hoover
Have not
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Goal
God
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