Frederick Douglass Quotes
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
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Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.
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Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
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I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
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But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
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In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
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Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
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Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
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I'm really obsessed with the past.
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We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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I missed out on my childhood. I had to work hard, but I was immediately given a place in playback.
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The independence of Ghana is meaningless until it is linked to the total liberation of Africa.
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International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.
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How sweet the harmonies of the afternoon! The Blackbird sings along the sunny breeze His ancient song of leaves, and summer boon; Rich breath of hayfields streams thro' whispering trees; And birds of morning trim their bustling wings, And listen fondly--while the Blackbird sings.
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In the West, you take people at their word.
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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
