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People of color have to do this work as a mater of everyday survival. And so long as they have to, who am I to… — Tim Wise
The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy because… — Unknown Author
So long as large sums of money are involved - and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal - it is literally impossible… — Milton Friedman
Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences… — John Dewey
I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a… — Unknown Author
Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, He… — Thomas Gray
The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I… — Swami Vivekananda
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue… — William Booth
To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst. — Bob Black
I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody. — T. Boone Pickens
Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our… — Maude Barlow
Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers bring more pictures… — Otto Neurath
She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies, as… — Jesmyn Ward
And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women… — Oliver North
The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small. — James Gould Cozzens
Amount of search is not a measure of the amount of intelligence being exhibited. What makes a problem a problem is not that a large… — Allen Newell
At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need to be mounting… — William Cronon
Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture. — Craig Newmark
Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small. — Laozi
The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of… — Mary McCarthy

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