Race Quotes
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The amount of interaction, the amount of understanding that exists in your generation among people of different races and different creeds and different colors is unprecedented. And by the way, that goes - that cuts across party lines, that cuts across partisan lines.
Barack Obama
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I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.
Eugene Delacroix
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Things can change if the military can do a paradigm shift and gets out of the shame and coverup cycle and be a leader in our culture. In the 50s, 60s and 70s there were huge race problems in the military even more severe than the culture at large. The military saw it was detrimental and it changed and became a model to society at large.
Amy Ziering
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What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose.
Homer
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Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.
H. L. Mencken
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Initially, the cats would run full speed down the hall chasing each other, go up and over the top of the two couches and climb up the column and race along the beam and hit a dead end where it connected to the wall.
Bob Walker
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We are pretty good. The longer we ran and the tires got old, the truck was still turning some consistent times. I think we are going to race very well. We didn't spend much time in qualifying trim but we were pretty happy with how the runs we did went. I am looking forward to qualifying and then tomorrow's race.
Bobby Labonte
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The only race I know is the human one.
Albert Einstein
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Rick Perry dropped out of the presidential race. When asked what went wrong, Perry said, I guess America is not ready to elect a dumb guy from Texas. But in time.
Conan O'Brien
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I am sure that in the next weeks and at the end of the electoral race prudence and the fundamental unity of the Mexicans will prevail at the slightest hint of intolerance or illegality.
Ernesto Zedillo
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The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.
Sigmund Freud
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Hail, blest Confusion! here are met All tongues, and times, and faces; The Lancers flirt with Juliet, The Brahmin talks of races.
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
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All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.
Ezra Koenig
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Among the Spartans all newly born children were subject to a careful examination or selection. All those that were weak, sickly, or affected with any bodily infirmity, were killed. Only the perfectly healthy and strong children were allowed to live, and they alone afterwards propagated the race.
Ernst Haeckel
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And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.
Eric Liddell
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When I'm racing, I'm thinking about my own race. I'm not thinking about anybody.
Caster Semenya
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
Tacitus
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Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.
Charles Baxter
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Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.
Sarah Silverman
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... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.
C. S. Lewis
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I'm proud of you. You're going to win a race soon.
Helio Castroneves
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To hell with safety. All I want to do is race.
James Hunt
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Can't be part of the rat race when you're one of the rats who knows you're in a cage.
Ed Brubaker