Kelly Miller
Kelly Miller
Kelly Millerwas an African-American mathematician, sociologist, essayist, newspaper columnist, author, and an important figure in the intellectual life of black America for close to half a century. He was known as "The Bard of the Potomac" in his day...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEssayist
Date of Birth23 July 1863
CountryUnited States of America
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If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.
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In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.
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For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.
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In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.
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Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy.
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The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war.
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We've been pretty relaxed, and we wanted to come and feel good going into the playoffs,
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We made a lot of nice pars on the back nine.
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I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
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Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.
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The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers.
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The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.
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When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan.