George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
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Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.
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You could pack for a trip to Europe with the bags under my eyes!
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This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
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My dad is an English teacher, and my mom is a textiles artist. My parents made my sisters and me feel that if we wanted to pursue something creative, it could be done. They've always been supportive of everything from the beginning.
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If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of different kinds of books. And then try writing in different voices and styles - don't be afraid to experiment.
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.
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Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.
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I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens.
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I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.
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Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.
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A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.
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The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.
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I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.
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The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.
