W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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I still have a young attitude.
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Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
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I think you'd have to live under a rock to not know who MacGyver is.
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I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up.
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The softest in the world surpasses the hardest in the world.
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Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family.
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In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.
