Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'
Quotes to Explore
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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Being evil is easy.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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If I ask my actors to bare themselves, to reveal themselves as almost naked, I have to bare myself, expose myself as well. That's what creates excitement.
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Use plot to buttress a story.
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Human exploration is something that's been going on for thousands of years, and the models that worked 500 years ago are likely to work again today.
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Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.
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It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'
