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african-american black call-me
I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American. Herman Cain
african-american world imagine
Imagine what a harmonious world it... Quincy Jones
african-american firsts bolshevism
First of all, Bolshevism represents... C. L. R. James
african interested narratives ourselves stories writers
African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent. Chris Abani
african contend either toward work
There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are either resisting him - stylistically, politically, or culturally - or we are writing toward him. Chris Abani
african aligned history religion trading
Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent. Wole Soyinka
african available basement cent downtown five front hub restroom standing store ten
This store that we're standing in front of, The Gap, was really Kress five and ten cent store and it was the hub of downtown for African Americans. The only restroom that was available to us was in the basement of this store. Emogene Middleton
african continued countries difference follow ground leap massive mean millions people poor recruit staff support thousands time treatment
Today's announcement will make a real difference to millions of poor people. On the ground it will mean thousands of people get treatment for the first time in their lives. Zambia will need continued support to recruit new staff but this is a massive leap in the right direction. We now need other African countries to follow suit. Barbara Stocking
african catholic funny haiti liked music tied voodoo
The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral. Win Butler
appreciation women wife
There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife. Clare Boothe Luce
appreciation men genius
Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man. Robert A. Heinlein
appreciation art people
When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it. Rupert Sheldrake
appreciation flattery
When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery. Sri Chinmoy
appreciation common esteem
It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown. Tacitus
appreciation fool speak
He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be. Philip James Bailey
appreciation thinking waiting
[T]ruly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us. Michel Foucault
appreciation people embarrassing
When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing. Michael Jordan
appreciation jobs funny-work
The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay. Oscar Wilde
creation good judgments
This is bad; this is good - can such judgments be ever made about anything in God's creation when all are manifestations of His will? Sathya Baba
creation economy generally job lack
At the same time, notwithstanding the lack of job creation, the economy is generally strong. Steve Stanley
creation-science scientific-method demand
You've GOT to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that. David Barton
diversity suffering demand
Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them. Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death. Steven Erikson
diversity irrelevant league looking minorities nfl publicity purely spend time women workplace
We don't spend any time looking at their figures. We think it's irrelevant and it's purely a publicity gimmick. There are more women and minorities working in the NFL than ever, and diversity in our workplace is an important league priority. Greg Aiello
diversity differentiation persons
...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees. Meher Baba
echoes action eternity
There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity. Pythagoras
echoes world knees
I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coined my cheek to smiles,-nor cried aloud In worship of an echo. Lord Byron
equality justice nation wants
Our nation wants peace, stability, justice and equality in international relations, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
equality men law
"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense. Mahatma Gandhi
estate liked people proximity thrilled
But we are thrilled to be where we are now. Our real estate people liked the proximity to the mall. P. J. Harvey
estate money
Money will go back from real estate to stocks. Jeff Thredgold
estate fall industry large people volume work
If the industry would give it time, these people would just fall out anyway, ... They would have to do such a large volume (of listings) to make any money, and real estate just doesn't work that way. Paul Tate
estate fraudulent involved
She was involved in nonexistent or fraudulent real estate transactions. Jim Amormino
god nobody thank
Thank God there was nobody in the pool. Steve Lewis
god thank
Thank God I couldn't see anything out there. Meryl Streep
god
That's what she said she wanted to do, ... She said that God told her to do that. Joyce Harris
god
That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical. Ted Nugent
god baby children
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Carl Sandburg
gods-creation needs harmony
We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully. Bruce Babbitt
god neck
A neck God made for other use / Than strangling in a string. A. E. Housman
god kiss
Even if God is dead, you're going to kiss his ass Tony Soprano
god goes name notion particular science
My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'. Brian Greene
humanity made
Humanity is always made up of more dead than living. Auguste Comte
humanity theatre crafts
Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise. Arthur Miller
humanity shaving refrain
One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans. Coco Chanel
humanity ifs
If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete. Deepak Chopra
humanity pieces may
Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used. Albert Schweitzer
humanity scandal humans
Scandal is only human. Jerry Saltz
humanity trying sexuality
I'm not trying to redefine sexuality or humanity or say that my answer is right and yours is wrong. I'm just happy with who I am. Nico Tortorella
humanity tubs bathroom
We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub. Mary McCarthy
humanity risk vision
Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk. Martin Luther King, Jr.
land tinkering cogs
If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not... Aldo Leopold
land saint glory
There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day. Andrew Young
land succeed want
We're hoping to succeed; we're okay with failure. We just don't want to land in between. David Chang
land darkness degradation
If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end. Daniel Webster
land zinc giving
What gives these corporations like CONOCO, SHELL, EXXON, DIASHAWA, ITT, RIO TINTO ZINC, and the WORLD BANK a right which supercedes or is superior to my human right to live on my land, or that of my family, my community, my nation, our nations, and to us as women? Winona LaDuke
land compensation
The only compensation for land is land, Winona LaDuke
land body
Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land Wendell Berry
land abuse ignorant
But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places everywhere in the world. And it is the gravest problem of land use: Modern humans typically are using places whose nature they have never known and whose history they have forgotten; thus ignorant, they almost necessarily abuse what they use. Wendell Berry
land government healthy
What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television? Wendell Berry
past needs study
Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future. C. S. Lewis
past years prison-population
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Bobby Scott
past long looks
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there. Dennis Potter
past needs
The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be... Eckhart Tolle
past product taken
We've really taken the product a long way in the past year, Nat Friedman
past wish
We wish the past two years could have been smoother. Joe Gibbs
past self filters
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. Doris Kearns Goodwin
past ideas race
Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished. Claude Levi-Strauss
past reality years
While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see. Claude Levi-Strauss
society way vegetarian
You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian. Richard Mitchell
society
Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools. Jens Stoltenberg
society life-is process
Life is simply the reification of the process of living. Ernst Mayr
society thousand ten
These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. James F. Cooper
society disease want
Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. Charles Caleb Colton