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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Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.
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Bernard Leach was an incredible draftsman, and at the end of breakfast time, for instance, he would push his plate back, and he'd pull an old scrap of paper out of his pocket and a little stub of a pencil, and he'd begin to make small drawings, about an inch and a half, two inches tall, of pots that he wanted to make. And they were beautiful drawings. I really wish I'd stolen some of those scraps of paper, because those drawings were exquisite explorations of his ideas of form and volume in a ceramic piece.
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There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.
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I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.
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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.
