W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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The late Bill Nye once said 'I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.'
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Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.
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Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.
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I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
