Bernice King Quotes
How do we navigate and process painful biases and conflicting emotions and press on to be sacrificial and suffer in the struggle? And what do we do with images and depictions that, known or unknown to those perpetuating them, may contribute to the impediment of human progress?
Quotes to Explore
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
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I struggle with control.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
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The growth in ethanol and biodiesel is something that I have worked on since I was secretary of agriculture in Kansas. I would like to see a lot more progress, because I think there is a real score to be made on this.
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
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I'm restless. I'm all the time here and there and trying to get myself busy and creative. It's something that's part of my personality since I was a kid.
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An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
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In the depths of the moor, the peat may be seen riven like floes of ice, and the rifts are sometimes twelve to fourteen feet deep, cut through black vegetable matter, the product of decay of plants through countless generations.
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I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!
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My priority will continue to be that we maintain the optimal balance to be able to invest in education and infrastructure while encouraging business growth.
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I tried out for 'Jeopardy' once, when they came to Cleveland, but I didn't make it.
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One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy.
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What's exciting for me is to make sure that people do still dress up - how do we do that in this fast-paced modern world, when we're all on the move and all so busy?
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How do we navigate and process painful biases and conflicting emotions and press on to be sacrificial and suffer in the struggle? And what do we do with images and depictions that, known or unknown to those perpetuating them, may contribute to the impediment of human progress?
