Whitney M. Young Quotes
You don’t get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept quiet. They didn’t shout “Irish Power”, “Jew Power”, [or] “Italian Power”. They kept their mouths shut and took over the police department of New York City, and the mayorship of Boston.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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I used to be a professional kiteboarder. People were like, 'Oh, my God, are you scared of sharks? Are you scared of injuries?' You can't be scared. If you're scared, then you can't do it. You can't train to be the best.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.
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It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory.
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Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.
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We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.
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It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
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Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.
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That man is of supreme folly who always wants for fear of wanting; and his life flies away while he is still hoping to enjoy the good things which he has with extreme labour acquired.
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I can understand why people would want to stay on the road because you create your own bubble. You almost don’t live in the real world. Just to have the things that are with you is fine.
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The purpose creates the machine.
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If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents.
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Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?
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In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
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The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which....pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.
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An important part of responsibility is to not neglect it. I wonder how often we have neglected the authority Jesus has given us by not applying His power to illness, weather, poverty or other life situations that He expects us, as His agents, to deal with? I wonder how many people Jesus heals directly because we do not participate? Worse yet, how many go unhealed because we who have been commissioned to operate in Jesus’ authority and power have neglected our responsibility?
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Every reader his or her book.
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You don’t get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept quiet. They didn’t shout “Irish Power”, “Jew Power”, [or] “Italian Power”. They kept their mouths shut and took over the police department of New York City, and the mayorship of Boston.
