W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
Natalie Imbruglia
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
Paloma Faith
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
Patricia Briggs
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
Salman Rushdie
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I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.
Garrett Hedlund
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
Wayne Huizenga
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
Gary Ross
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
Mal Peet
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Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds
Eglantyne Jebb
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I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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It has become impossible to forget 'votes for women,' just as it was impossible to forget the reformation of Luther.
Alice Paul
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Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.
Abraham Lincoln
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Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men.
Colin Chapman
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
W. E. B. Du Bois
