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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive look at just…
— Aberjhani
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The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known.…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice. Its right to…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Scores do not reveal the most important facts about a wine. The written commentary (tasting notes) that accompanies the ratings is a better source of…
— Robert M. Parker, Jr.
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From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While those sins would not be…
— Robert M. Parker, Jr.
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Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.
— Bethany Hamilton
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The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic…
— Fritjof Capra
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The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far…
— Betty Friedan
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If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we…
— Carter Heyward
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If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as…
— John Haynes Holmes
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I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
— Clare Boothe Luce
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One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a…
— H. L. Mencken
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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less…
— Samuel Gompers
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for…
— U Thant
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It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
— Josh Billings
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Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is…
— John W. Snow
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Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on…
— Sarah Vowell
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Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you…
— Michael Korda
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Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never…
— Anna Held
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Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.
— Joe Eszterhas
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Milestones you'd like to reach before retiring? Not really. Because when I began it was never to reach 100 games or reach 200 or to…
— LaVell Edwards
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God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like…
— Rick Warren
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Do not wonder why things are "taking so long." In fact, everything is rolling out exactly as it needs to, using not a minute more…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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