Saint Augustine Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.
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Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
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We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.
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Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
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Reality is reality. It is the way things are, not the way you want them to be in your head. 7
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
