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.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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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.
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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.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We both may be killed by the Muslims, and must put our purity to the ultimate test, so that we know that we are offering the purest of sacrifices, and we should now both start sleeping naked.
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Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original take on an idea that's been done before.
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That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.
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I think Madonna might have a multiple personality.
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I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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If post-punk enterprise suggested that pop music could establish a fierce skittishness, an aggressive self-irony, that would enable it to transcend its manufactured state, video narcissism announces that pop has found an easy way to steal more cash from young people and damage their natural desires.
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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 .
