Cheikh Anta Diop Quotes
The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilization is to be counted among the assets of the Black world.
Cheikh Anta Diop
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Mike [Mitchell] brought me on as co-director, and eventually we ended up sharing a brain. It was overwhelming initially when I was working with departments I hadn't had contact with before.
Walt Dohrn
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Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
Finley Peter Dunne
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He couldn't find anybody who would rent him a place to live, so he had to live in this woman's house.
Orlando Cepeda
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There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.
Farah Pahlavi
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A few minutes?" Feeling suddenly shy, she crossed her arms over her chest. The smile on his face widened, becoming touched with the feral wildness of the cat. It made thinking difficult. "I believed males needed a longer recovery time to mate." "Not this kitty cat." Rising to his feet, he said, "Get ready to play.
Nalini Singh
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When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.
Cory Booker
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For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art....
Robert Frost
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A period film is a gift for a cinematographer.
Rachel Morrison
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I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.
Nigel Kennedy
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In the Field Museum of Natural History we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so forth, Greece. We could see the most sophisticated things that came out of the Orient - Japan, Korea, and China - some few pieces of European porcelain, majolica tin glazed earthenware, and that sort of thing. But they had a marvelous collection.
Warren MacKenzie
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Had been deeply struck.... by the damage wreaked upon mathematics in France by the first world war, when “a misguided notion of equality in the face of sacrifice” led to the slaughter of the country’s young scientific elite. In the light of this, he believed he had a duty, not just to himself but also to civilization, to devote his life to mathematics. Indeed, he argued, to let himself be diverted from the subject would be a sin. When others raised the objection “but if everybody were to behave like you...”, he replied that this possibility seemed to him so implausible that he did not feel obliged to take it into account.
Edward Frenkel
