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She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.
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This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.
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The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
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Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he…
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A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged.…
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At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able…
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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
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O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?
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As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.
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Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and…
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Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano…
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The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If…
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Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
— Winston Churchill
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I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of…
— Peter Abelard
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When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt…
— Ian Anderson
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Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the…
— John Tuzo Wilson
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In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of…
— Alexander Fleming
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At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able…
— James Weldon Johnson
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Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with…
— Rabih Alameddine
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I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain…
— Shimon Peres
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If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score…
— Ronaldinho
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I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny…
— Sam Houston
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The farm was a great place to grow up, but I preferred the Hollywood Hills. My aunt looked like Lucille Ball and…
— Sandra Lerner
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I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't…
— Chrissie Hynde
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