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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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?
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I appreciate that something I've done has found a safe place to land.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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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.
