David Roediger Quotes
In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo has recently put it, "on arrival." Where naturalization law was concerned, for example, ample precedents recognized their ability to become citizens, a right explicitly resting on their "whiteness." But they also remained, as Working toward Whiteness puts it, "on trial" for a harrowingly long time.

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The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
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Being surrounded by love and people that care about your heart is the dream. That's what I would like on my last day.
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Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
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I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.
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Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
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If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.
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I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.
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A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.
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So you went looking for a myth and found a man.
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Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible.
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If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.
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There's no more important consumer product today than a cell phone.
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My role in 'Hero' is not a lengthy one but a powerful one. It was a nice opportunity, and I grabbed it.
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Use visual cues to prompt yourself to put away more. A photograph of the beach house where you and your husband can envision spending your retirement will remind you to bump up the contribution to your 401(k); a snapshot of your child in a college sweatshirt can encourage you to put more into a 529 college savings plan.
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Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.
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I'm not doing this for money. I'm doing it because it needs to be done. There's a lack of information in Stony Point.
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If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.
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The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.
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In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo has recently put it, "on arrival." Where naturalization law was concerned, for example, ample precedents recognized their ability to become citizens, a right explicitly resting on their "whiteness." But they also remained, as Working toward Whiteness puts it, "on trial" for a harrowingly long time.