Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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I don't aim to quit while I'm ahead. I just aim to quit.
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Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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America says we are a great democratic society and other people should follow our example. Well, I say we benefited from slavery, and as a nation, we never faced that because the people in power chose not to.
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The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer.
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Donald Trump abuses his power, games the system, puts his own interests ahead of the country's.
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Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
