W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.
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Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.
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It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.
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This is gonna work out. We've worked too hard on this to see it not work out.
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As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets.
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Seeing that flag means so much: I am inspired by my Queen, my country.
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An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
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For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.
