Ntozake Shange Quotes
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I have made 'start, grow and stay' a big part of my administration.
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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
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I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
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After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
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More than half the states that will miss the voting-equipment deadline will have signed contracts with vendors.
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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.
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An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.
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And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
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Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.
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I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.
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It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.
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What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?
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Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest. He believed in Social Darwinism. He believed that you had to give an opportunity to the fittest, who were going to survive, to the fittest to rise themselves as high as they could.
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Knowledge is more important than space.
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Diamond, for all its great beauty, is not nearly as interesting as the hexagonal plane of graphite. It is not nearly as interesting because we live in a three-dimensional space, and in diamond, each atom is surrounded in all three directions in space by a full coordination.
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History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.
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We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.
