Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.Charles B. Rangel
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The world needs some help.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Because war is a competition involving life and death, and in which national security and vital interests are at stake, establishing an objective other than winning is not only counterproductive, but also irresponsible and wasteful. In some circumstances, it is also unethical.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in parting with dear objects. The humid gaze does not wander around holding back a tear, as if it wished to carry away in it a trembling reflection of the abandoned spot; but in the best corner of our hearts we feel pity for the things which we did not bring to life with our breath, which we hardly noticed and are now leaving forever. This already dead iventory will not be resurrected in one's memory.
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There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.
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We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it's also about decreasing our worry. So what you get for paying those high taxes is, if you're a parent thinking about putting your child through school, you don't have to worry about it, because all education through college is free.
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Improving our nation's education system has long been the cornerstone of my policy agenda.
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A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
Charles B. Rangel
