Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.
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The country is stronger than the result of any one election. But we shouldn't forget that these are just ordinary people. I wish Americans would look at them level, not down or up - just level. It doesn't take some special dimension to be president.
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I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.
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Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
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Peoples everywhere wish and long for peace and freedom in their simplest and clearest connotations: an end to armed conflict and to the suppression of the inalienable rights of man.
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When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious. I think it's just human nature.
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I wish I could wear clothes straight off the runway.
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I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home.
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Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage.
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I grew up thinking you're either a winner in the world, or you're not. I presumed I was not. I had no reason to think I would be, and my inclination is towards self-deprecation. I wish I'd known no one was judging my every move, but I'm still like this!
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I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.
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Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
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The wish to pass something on to your children is about the most basic, human and natural aspiration there is.
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More than anything in this world, I wish I had been born rich. It would have made up for everything. I'd still be ugly, sure, but I'd be rich and ugly. I'd still be weak and dim and tongue-tied with women, but I'd be rich enough for them not to care. I'd no longer be a social misfit, I'd be eccentric. And most of all, I'd no longer be what I was, I'd be something different.
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We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the internet. But we're still very animalistic. So, I think about hierarchies. I think about evolution. I think about how we stack up, how we sit on top of each other. How we pray that we know what we're up to.
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I was not concerned. In the past, we would have folded. But I knew that Sam and Mobley would be up to the challenge.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.
