Pierre Corneille Quotes
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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Nerves are good. They keep you alive.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
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There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.
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I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.
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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Typically, there's this perspective among writers - and black writers: there's this idea that there is one person - and maybe beyond writers - among blacks, there is always one person who everyone should go to learn about all things black.
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He thought about that for a moment, wondered what he should say. The truth or nothing. The truth.
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There is no such thing as a typically 'schizophrenogenic' (schizophrenia-producing) family arrangement, one most likely to produce a mentally ill adult from a child with the potential for the disease.
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Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.
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There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good?
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Plymouth, Gwenda thought, as she moved forward obediently in the queu for Passports and Customs, was probably not the best of England.
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A Maybelline New York woman is strong and confident - I love that attitude.
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We've got to go back to their ballpark. We'll put this one behind us. We've been through too much this year not to. It hurts, but it's over. Move on.
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The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.
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Le feu qui semble éteint souvent dort sous la cendre.
