Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willing to meet the challenges of higher education to invest in our collective future.Charles B. Rangel
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
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In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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Part of our pedagogy is, you report on what's going on in your neighborhood and your city.
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I don't want to lead an organization where I have no sense of what the members think of me - and by arrangement. I would never do that.
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A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willing to meet the challenges of higher education to invest in our collective future.
Charles B. Rangel
