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Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one. — Valerie Jarrett
It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about… — Pope John XXIII
You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just… — James Weldon Johnson
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin… — E. Stanley Jones
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race. — James Earl Jones
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way. — June Jordan
It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war. — Chief Joseph
How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else? — Tony Judt
I'm more of a hands-on person. I like working with young people from the standpoint of providing support for the grassroots programs. State, national and… — Jackie Joyner-Kersee
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. — Louis Kahn
Some people are a little bit afraid about the future because they see all these gadgets and gizmos coming down the pike and they think… — Michio Kaku
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. — Jean Kerr
The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture… — John F. Kerry
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in… — Soren Kierkegaard
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is… — Barbara Kingsolver
Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about… — Allen Klein
Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can… — Jeffrey Kluger
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. — Ed Koch
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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