W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
Pamela Meyer
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I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
Olivia De Havilland
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There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.
Kate Winslet
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Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
J. Edgar Hoover
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Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.
Randi Weingarten
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Everybody has been saying 'Srimanthudu' is the best film of my career. After watching the film, Dad told me that he's never seen me perform like this. I just couldn't stop myself from crying.
Mahesh Babu
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It didn’t matter that they were terrible at being parents; they were also very rich, which meant they could pay other people to love Alec.
Kage Baker
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I like to say that the attacker always has the advantage.
Garry Kasparov
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My boat is on the shore,And my bark is on the sea;But, before I go, Tom Moore.Here's a double health to thee!
Lord Byron
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This Court now concludes that independent political expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.
Anthony Kennedy
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Un-American, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.
Ambrose Bierce
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A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.
Benjamin Franklin
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But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the beautiful or the ugly, whether among the crude or refined, love is always just love. There's no difference.
Saadat Hasan Manto
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Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction; he had lived all winter, he had doubtless fed on slugs all the autumn. I could have kissed him on the spot.
Celia Thaxter
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There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation.
Richard Feynman
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Only the impossible is worth the effort.
Jeanette Winterson
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There are so many examples of people who have flourished by keeping their nose to the grindstone and doing their thing. Be persistent and don't give up.
Stephnie Weir
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If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.
W. E. B. Du Bois
