Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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• A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Think
  • Language
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• Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Education
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• You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• Trump says a lot of things that are crazy... Trump's a moron.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• There are common-sense things that your government could do that would give Americans more opportunities to succeed. Why don’t we do it? Because powerful special interests and the tendency to put ideology ahead of political progress have led to gridlock in Congress.

  

  Hillary Clinton
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• Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
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  • Art

• I wish I had more time to read. I'm always traveling.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Time
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• Trust me, I play the game for the fans, my family and myself.

  

  David Ortiz
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• Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

  

  Jean-Francois Lyotard
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• I love epistolary novels and became wildly excited when the form presented itself to me.

  

  Maria Semple

• I tried to minimize exposure to technology before two. After that, I've taught the kids to use devices in moderation. It's important for them to learn how to control their behaviour themselves. Simply restricting access makes them want it more.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
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• Never use your own money. Steal a good idea and say it's your own. Do anything to get publicity. Remember that everybody can be bought.

  

  Jimmy Breslin
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• I said at the start of the race that the Tour is about being good for 21 days, being consistent every day, not having super days and bad days.

  

  Bradley Wiggins
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• No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'

  

  Chris Rock

• You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being a success as an actor.

  

  Debra Messing
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• Don’t beat yourself. That’s the worst kind of defeat you’ll ever suffer.

  

  John Wooden

• Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • World
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  • Exploitation

• For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him and his fellow subjects, if he who commands those subjects, have power to take from any private man, what part he pleases of his property, and use and dispose of it as he thinks good.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
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• What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

  

  Epictetus
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• We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

  

  Bill Mollison
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• Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.

  

  Ellen Lupton
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• [nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Secure
  • Seeks
  • Moral Means