Ernest Wood Quotes
It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living.
Quotes to Explore
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
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Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.
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No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
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I can't believe this is happening I can't believe all these people are sniffing each other & backing away teeth grinning hair raised, growling, here in the slaughtered wind
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.
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I'm very picky in what I wear.
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Anything you can do to help someone, I just think it's so important because there's a lot of kids that look up athletes of all size and shapes in a lot of different fields, not necessarily in the basketball field. They get involved emotionally with those people because there's something about certain athletes that people rally around.
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In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery; weeks later, I flew down to Los Angeles and met with the director of Free the Slaves; thus began my journey into exploring modern-day slavery.
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At the end of the day, all we're trying to do is get the hitter off balance. Get him in a position where he's not strong in the strike zone.
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I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
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I think a lot of girls look up to me because I'm a strong woman.
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'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
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One of the key differences between galaxies with super massive black holes is whether or not the black holes are lit up, because they are basically bingeing on a lot of material in its surroundings.
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The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.
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The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
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The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
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Even with the approach that I take in Congress, which is to bring people together to get things done - many people describe that as 'reasonable' - I couldn't vote for John Boehner's re-elect.
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Let today be THE day.
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It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.
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There was a whole, sprawling world underneath us, filled with ugly, vicious, beautiful people. The line between the two places was thin, hardly a separation, and both ran on pain and blood and fear and death and joy and music. But for now, the sunset was enough.
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Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.
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It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living.
