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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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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Sadat made us feel more secure.
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The truth of the matter is being gay is the way I was born. I believe this to the core of my being.
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It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
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If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?
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I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.
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I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.
