W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
Eden Ahbez
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln
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People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
Ralph Allen
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Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record.
Barbara Boxer
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence
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People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
Patrick White
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President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.
Samantha Power
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
E. O. Wilson
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
J. Carter Brown
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There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.
Ira Glass
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As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
Gary Bauer
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There's nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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You know how we built the pyramids? You gotta ask yourself a question always flip the script. What if up was down and down was up? What if you looked down into space standing up on Earth? This is how we built the pyramids.
Eddie Griffin
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Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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I'm very attracted to characters who don't necessarily make it easy to be loved.
Charlize Theron
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The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
W. E. B. Du Bois
