Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
Carter G. Woodson
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.
R. A. Salvatore
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A well balanced, inclusive approach, is essential for the proper government of any country.
Laisenia Qarase
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The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
W. Edwards Deming
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[At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.
Cleopatra
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I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.
Ric Keller
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
William Hazlitt
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.
Bruce Willis
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I daydream about things I want to happen, but none of it is more complicated, most of the time, than just really hoping that the good parts and the well-written parts are the ones that turn up on my doorstep.
Rebecca Hall
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There are many books that I love dearly, and I've seen many televised or film recreations that I just haven't thought were up to scratch.
Essie Davis
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
Malcolm McDowell
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I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."
Jonathan Swift
