W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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I've got to win every race.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.
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The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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Whenever I am in Paris, all I want to do is inhale a big plate of cheese. And in New York, my favourite thing is a toasted bagel with cream cheese. Not only do I not avoid carbs, I more or less have them in every meal. When I start denying myself foods, that's when I crave them.
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What's difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because their heart was closed. That is hard. But that is also how we grow. We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
