W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.

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• I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

  

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• I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.

  

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• I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

  

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• To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

  

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• I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.

  

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• The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.

  

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• Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

  

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• The study titled 'Impact of Immigration on Wages, by Education Level, 1994-2007' found that increased immigration had an effect of lowering wages for earlier immigrants by an average of 4.6 percent. Running counter to popular perception is the finding that for native-born Americans, wages actually increased by 0.6 percent.

  

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• I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

  

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• Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.

  

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• Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Different
  • Gunpowder