Frederick Douglass Quotes
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
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So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.
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I think that with Donald Trump, the United States will have a president who is not ideologically limited; that is, he is an open person, much more interested in success, efficiency, and results than political theories.
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I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.
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Stay in your heart.
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I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
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The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
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Mede spoke with amused tolerance, as physicists generally speak of biologists.
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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
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'You have been allowing challenges to destroy you instead of you to destroy challenges. When challenges come – my God has the final say, not my ability or knowledge.'
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If rain was God crying, I think God was drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.
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The 'open' mind of the poet and artist can sense realities beyond the reach of our normal senses. The real problem is that our materialistic assumptions have a number of false premises built into them: it is only when we recognize this that we see there is no sharp dividing line between the everyday world and the invisible world of the clairvoyant.
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To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.
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If you do generic things, you know, after a while, brands or designers become stagnated.
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When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
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The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.
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Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.
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Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
