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This is a process, not an event. It's not going to happen over night. It's clear that we as African American men are unique and only we can articulate what it's like to attend a private college. But all of us would also agree that it was worth it, that we are successful today because of it. Steve Jones
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This is a special moment for baseball, a special moment for African Americans. Just like it is every time April 15 comes up. I think last year was really special because I was wearing the uniform that Jackie wore. Milton Bradley
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Throwing money at African governments is not the answer, Thabo Mbeki
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NATO has not received any formal request from the UN or from the AU for anything beyond what it is currently doing. NATO is continuing to do what it has been doing for many months, and that is airlifting in and out African Union battalions...as well as providing training. James Appathurai
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Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a lot of time in the forests of central Africa. I know they're beautiful places that contain a lot of different kinds of creatures, including some that carry Ebola. David Quammen
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While a lot of African Americans and Latinos may have negative perceptions about the military, they can still identify with the strength of the soldier. Joseph Anthony
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I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American. Herman Cain
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I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans - the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today. Willie Nelson
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The Habre case is more worrying for African leaders as it is more universal in its implications. They will find it a very difficult decision. Richard Reeves
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The statement was a lot more forceful than the market was expecting and that has given Asian currencies a strong boost. Japan is going to have to tolerate a stronger currency, like the rest of the countries in the region. Jeremy Stretch
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We should be pleased to have avoided some of the heavyweights of Asian football. It's a good draw. John Boultbee
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I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro. Jackie Chan
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I think the HSBC Champions is going to be a really exciting fixture on our golfing calendar and with a prize fund of US$5 million, the largest in the history of Asian and Chinese golf, it is an event we all want to win. O. Singh
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L.A. draws highly skilled Asians and San Francisco draws highly skilled gays, but D.C. draws highly skilled everybody -- gays, Latins, Asians, Africans, scientists and so on, ... The trick will be to avoid pricing ourselves out of that creativity. Richard Florida
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C&W could be a nice fit, because it would provide Internet protocol assets in the United States, it has sorted out its Asian exposure, and it is cheap relative to other similar companies. Jonathan Shantry
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If there are problems in the Asian economy, and there are already in the Japanese economy, the fall in (oil) prices could be more serious than we thought, Ali Rodriguez
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In the South Asian context, talks on conventional military confidence building cannot be divorced from terrorism, ... The route of the escalatory process is militancy. Bharat Karnad
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Increasingly, it seems Asian countries are wanting to slow the pace of reserve accumulation, given how high they have gotten. Callum Henderson
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. Bertrand Russell
civilization america risk
The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake. Al Gore
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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'. Booker T. Washington
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Prejudices are the props of civilization. Andre Gide
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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. Timothy Leary
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Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,. Thomas Sowell
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The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization. Thomas Sowell
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If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of the anointed often see these constraints as only arbitrary impositions, things from which they-and we all-can be 'liberated.' The social disintegration which has followed in the wake of such liberation has seldom provoked any serious reconsideration of the whole set of assumptions-the vision-which led to such disasters. That vision is too well insulated from feedback. Thomas Sowell
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Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but today taxes are mostly the price we pay so that politicians can play Santa Claus and get reelected. Thomas Sowell
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making a noise in this world making a noise in this world you can bet your ass, I won't go quietly making a noise in this world. Robbie Robertson
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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people. Sitting Bull
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America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else. Isabel Wilkerson
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I was born where there were no enclosures. Geronimo
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I'm proud of my Native American heritage, Elizabeth Warren
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All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle
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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred. Black Elk
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Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles. Black Elk
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The Justice Department ruled that Native American tribes are allowed to grow and sell marijuana on reservations. This decision was hailed as a victory by Native American leader Giggling Eagle. Conan O'Brien
taken mind belief
They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out. C. S. Lewis
taken brain
The right brain is finally being taken seriously. Daniel H. Pink
taken rain ugly-things
but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud. Dean Young
taken character hardship
Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape. Antonya Nelson
taken mind absence
The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete. Bruce Lee
taken play feelings
On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away. Edwidge Danticat
taken sides curious
It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end. Eleanor Roosevelt
taken color risk
When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk. Ben Harper
taken government self
They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history, every fact in human experience. It has taken the whole power of the civil and canon law to hold woman in the subordinate position which it is said she willingly accepts. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
westerns
I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films. Mel Brooks