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race white-privilege choices
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.
race white-privilege choices
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly what white privilege is, that you can say that. Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.
race racism matter
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The only reason race matters is because of racism.
race vanity desire
Edward Gibbon A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.
race errors history
Edward Gibbon The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.
race class people
Eddie Marsan Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
race may natural
David Ricardo LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
race talking earth
David Icke The families in positions of great financial power obsessively interbreed with each other. But I'm not talking about one Earth race, Jewish or non-Jewish. I'm talking about a genetic network that operates through all races, this bloodline being a fusion of human and reptilian genes.
errors mad void
Charles Stross Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)
errors events chance
Charles Spurgeon You say, 'On the off chance that I had somewhat more, I ought to be exceptionally fulfilled.' You commit an error. On the off chance that you are not content with what you have, you would not be fulfilled in the event that it were multiplied.
errors needs done
Charles Spurgeon If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.
errors useless repentance
Edward Gibbon Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.
errors political demand
David Ricardo The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an axiom in political economy, and has been the source of much error in that science.
errors accountability criticism
David Brin Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.
errors answers may
Benjamin Robbins Curtis No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.
errors vagueness belief
Bertrand Russell None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
errors reform cost
Carlos Mesa The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
history use principles
David Hume Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.
history remembered
Benazir Bhutto What is not recorded is not remembered.
history lists surprise
Kurt Vonnegut History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
history
Kurt Vonnegut History! Read it and weep!
history morality interest
Agnes Repplier History is not written in the interests of morality.
history favors may
Agnes Repplier History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
history fluid ifs
Agnes Repplier If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
history serial-killer wells
Charles Manson If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.
history twenties hindsight
Billy Wilder Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.