Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Quotes
The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
Kali Hawk
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
Lane Garrison
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Baruch Spinoza
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
Oliver Sim The xx
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
Francesco Totti
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
Nancy Pearcey
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
Abraham Lincoln
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
Kate Beckinsale
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
Zac Brown Band
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The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
Nancy Lopez
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I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
Harrison Ford
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It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.
Ice Cube
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I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.
Tavi Gevinson
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It's always been hard trying to find the right pieces that go together, but it's always been something that interests me - finding new ways to be fashionable and cute but still being modest.
Halima Aden
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One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.
Omar Ahmad
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A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
Imran Khan
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Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.
P. J. O'Rourke
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You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.
Kathy Mattea
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As Duke Ellington once said, 'the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Elkton.' ... About that Wellington guy, I wouldn't know. Ellington, yes. As for that Eton business - well, I married my first wife in Elkton, and I always hated the place. It musta stuck.
Babe Ruth
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Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.
Natan Sharansky
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Everyone has a masculine and feminine side; masculine qualities and feminine qualities. We've all got these sides to ourselves. And clothes can tell that story. People would think this is very unsympathetic, but I would always say to people, you don't actually need to go through with an operation, can't you just be? You are who you are! But then people say to me, "Oh, you're really dreadful, how would you know?".
Vivienne Westwood
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Hitler, who founded the Third Reich, who ruled it ruthlessly and often with uncommon shrewdness, who led it to such dizzy heights and such a sorry end, was a person of undoubted, if evil genius. It is true that in the German people, as a mysterious Providence and centuries of experience had molded them up to that time, he found a natural instrument which he was able to shape to his own sinister ends.
William L. Shirer
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The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson