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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through…
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A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a…
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom…
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring…
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one…
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading…
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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let…
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and…
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I began to study again, and now for the first time really achieved an understanding of the content of the Jew Karl…
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The result of observing only the universe is anxiety. Only observing the Observer of the universe will put a stop to a…
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The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the…
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The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the…
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The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the…
— Andrew Mellon
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King Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack [his capital city], is supposed to have asked the Persian King Cyrus, 'What is it that…
— Diodorus Siculus
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The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him…
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A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to…
— William Booth
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to…
— Sigmund Freud
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