Henry Louis Gates Quotes

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.

Henry Louis Gates

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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.

Aaron Swartz
- Up
- World
- Community
It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.

A. R. Rahman
- Life
- Control
- Car
Every time you load a webpage is a HTTP request. That's a lot of HTTP requests. If you are earning bitcoin on every HTTP request, that could be a lot of earned bitcoins.

Balaji Srinivasan
- Time
- You
- Bitcoin
The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

Talcott Parsons
- School
- Society
- Very
Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.

Patrick Ness
- Great
- Write
- Working
I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson
- Football
- Hair
- Street