Ned Sublette Quotes
Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.
Ned Sublette
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
Ted Danson
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Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.
Victor Hugo
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
F. Sionil Jose
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.
Rakul Preet Singh
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Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I've worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again.
David Autor
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I wanna be your t-shirt when it's wet, I wanna be your shower when you sweat.
Bryan Adams
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He was our Jackie Robinson, ... He wanted to make sure you had a place to live, that you were getting food to eat. Some guys, they only learned enough English to order one thing. He wanted to make sure you had money. If you didn't have money for something, he would give it to you.
Orlando Cepeda
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I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.
Pablo Neruda
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In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.
Umberto Boccioni
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Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.
Rachel Carson
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If you are to succeed in anything, you must first be able to imagine it.
Emile Coue
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Even in the nineties, when it was mad and there were photographers all around the house, it never occurred to me to send someone else out to get cigarettes. It took me five minutes - went for a walk, gave a wave, went back inside.
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
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Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself.
J. G. Holland
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If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.
William Beveridge
