Bernard Bailyn Quotes
The number of slave voyages included in the database has now risen to thirty-five thousand, accounting for the forced migration of more than twelve million Africans between 1514 and 1866, a million more than were estimated at the time of the conference in 1998.
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I don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don't are not patriotic, then I reject that definition.
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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.
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I've not actually been on too many dates.
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If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
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The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace
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The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship.
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The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.
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My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.
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Once when I was lost I asked a policeman to help me find my parents. I said to him, 'Do you think we'll ever find them?' He answered, 'I don't know, kid. There are so many places they can hide.
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As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.
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I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
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Swarming city, city full of dreams, Where the ghosts in broad daylight hang up the passers-by!
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Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.
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Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master.
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There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.
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The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.
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That the nation has found a consensus for its highest office in some one who has sprung from the grass-roots of our society and grown up in the dust and heat of this sacred land is symbolic of the fact that the concerns of the common man have now moved to the centre stage of our social and political life. It is this larger significance of my election rather than any personal sense of honour that makes me rejoice on this occasion.
