If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride. ~Elizabeth Chadwick
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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That is what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. ~Kurt Busch
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision. ~Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory. ~Milton Friedman
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data. ~Jeremy Stoppelman
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For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
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Death is just life's next big adventure. ~J. K. Rowling
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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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