Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.
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I lost 25 pounds, I was so exhausted, I could barely lift my arms.
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A problem is an opportunity to learn.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.
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And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
