Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I love trying new restaurants.
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I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.
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Humility is an attribute of every good Hindu.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
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While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.
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People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.
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Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
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It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.
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As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
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Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.
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I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.
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Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly,--darling Westly, adored Westly, sweet perfect Westly, whisper that I have a chance to win your love." And with that, she dared the bravest thing she'd ever done: she looked right into his eyes. He closed the door in her face.
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I'm an outdoorsy guy, but I also enjoy the average teenager stuff - video games, movies, hanging with friends. I'm just a normal guy!
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They would randomly assign patients to either ECMO or the conventional treatment until a prespecified number of deaths was observed in one of the groups. Then they would switch all the patients in the study to the more effective treatment of the two.
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Never react emotionally to what happens but always look for and find in every circumstance the good that's surely present there.
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I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
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I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.
