Edwin Clarence Riegel Quotes
Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereignsEdwin Clarence Riegel
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Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
Tananarive Due -
I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
W. H. Davies -
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Nancy Astor -
There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu -
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde -
I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
Tao Lin -
The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.
Jackson Katz -
I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
Larry Flynt -
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
Bayard Taylor -
The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
Wang Jianlin
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To read too many books is harmful.
Mao Zedong -
My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.
Patrick Schwarzenegger -
After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
Gabriel Medina -
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
S. I. Hayakawa -
Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
Zadie Smith -
The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.
Tariq Ali
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It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness.
Mary Wollstonecraft -
The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing board to hold all the various Orthodox bodies together.
Frederica Mathewes-Green -
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
W. C. Fields -
I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.
Anthony Clifford Grayling -
Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns
Edwin Clarence Riegel