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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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Imagine what a harmonious world it... Quincy Jones
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First of all, Bolshevism represents... C. L. R. James
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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
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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.
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Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent. Wole Soyinka
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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
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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
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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
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I don't want to go in armed with a bunch of tunes -- I want to go in barefoot and unprepared. It's an ongoing relationship. We like the way he works, and he likes the way we work together, so I don't think it's even a question.
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I want to make sure if our armed forces are going to play a greater role in the world than previously that we give them the welfare, the numbers and the equipment that they need.
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Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero. Charles Studd
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Battles decide everything. Carl von Clausewitz
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Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence. Ben Harper
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Friday is going to be a battle but we're going to show up.
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If we could just run him up or see him, we could say we know where he's at, we know he's there. We could start with a battle plan.
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If Bush is willing to go to the mat for somebody, the odds are good that, at the end of the day, no matter how bloody the battle has been, he can get that person confirmed.
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Great tournament, just fell a little short. We knew it was going to be a battle with Gall, and it was. They were ranked #1 and #2 all year. I think wrestling fans everywhere were glad to see this match in the finals, not in the first round.
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The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle. Eugene McCarthy
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Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle. George R. R. Martin
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He works every shift even though I think every morning he wakes up his body is sore and aches. But he shows up every game, works hard, blocks shots and leads the team. It's pretty to watch.
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The Solomon Islands is on the brink, at the moment, of a civil war. They are at the crossroads,
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I see this issue as the civil rights issue of our time.
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A larger increase for military families clearly is in order. So too, however, is a larger increase for the men and women of the government's civilian workforce.
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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
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Title 42 U.S. Code, Section 1988 was intended to help the poor obtain legal counsel in claims of real, tangible violations of civil rights. To leverage defendants into submission and enrich themselves at the same time, organizations like the ACLU have exploited it.
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The first requisite of civilization is that of justice. Sigmund Freud
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A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
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The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.
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Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
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As dumb as this administration is, they don't look ahead. They don't know where any countries are. They don't know how to make deals. They don't really know much about anything. There is no plan. Gore Vidal
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Countries around the world shoulder major responsibility for development.
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Countries around the world are drafting stronger laws. But hackers will find the weakest link, the country with no laws.
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Many countries had a hand in raising me. I am the product of many contradicting philosophies and cultures... My entire universe is comprised of these foreign traditions. If any one of these experiences are to be ignored, I wouldn't be the same. Masiela Lusha
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I don't think it's a failure we didn't get to meet him, ... We serve a God who is greater than all of us, and the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than all of the 191 countries in the U.N. combined.
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For this to happen, developed countries must be prepared to support, with public investment, through grants or loans, developing countries in their efforts. Gordon Brown
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If the idea is to promote a sense of security at the same time that the development of large reactors to a long list of countries is promoted, then it's very misguided. They're trying to sell this as a nonproliferation initiative, but we shouldn't be so quick to cede that point.
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No country is risk-free, and we are facing a serious international crisis. It is important that local and national authorities within other countries in the region remain vigilant for possible outbreaks.
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It is a pact that remains in favor of the farm export policies of the rich countries and big emerging countries ... and does little for the majority of farmers.
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A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred. Bill Callahan
number qualified question
the most qualified person on question number two. Gray Davis
numbers people gone
Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me. Alex Ferguson
numbers track together
I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together. Alexa Chung
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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of. Alice Walker
numbers perfection limits
Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits. Richard Bach
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To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members. Robert A. Heinlein
numbers people stuff
Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do. Ross Kemp
numbers diversity goal
A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus. Vernon Jordan
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If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will... Ben Okri
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I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash Brendan Fraser
power
Rights are in the power of the people.
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Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast. Charles R. Swindoll
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Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man? Charles Darwin
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Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States. Demian Bichir
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord. Barbara Bush
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Every power play they got, they really bared down. They really got us.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely. Adlai Stevenson
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If you can’t get the wicket of Rohit Sharma, you are struggling in life Brett Lee
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All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list. Al Gore
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I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve. Jane Asher
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As Fuehrer of the German people and Chancellor of the Reich, I can thank God at this moment that he has so wonderfully blessed us in our hard struggle for what is our right, and beg Him that we and all other nations may find the right way, so that not only the German people but all Europe may once more be granted the blessing of peace. Adolf Hitler
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Man has become great through struggle
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Struggle is gruesome only for the weak.
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Most authors liken the struggle of writing to something mighty and macho, like wrestling a bear. Writing a book is nothing like that. It is a small, slow crawl to the finish line. Honestly, I have moments when I don't even care if anyone reads this book. I just want to finish it. Amy Poehler
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I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting think is the struggle with the self, and the relation with the self, and there is no end to the improvement that can be done there, the discoveries that can be made. Allen Ginsberg
struggle self opposites
The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over to the great instruments of last manhood the skilled bow unbenders and Jesuits of our days, the psychiatrists, who, in the same spirit and as part of the same conspiracy of modernity as the peace virtuosos, reduce conflict. Allan Bloom