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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 thousand civil rights…
- When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will…
- The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class…
- The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may…
- Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller…
- Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
- Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression.…
- Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and…
- The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such…
- Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds…
- Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
- ...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue,…
- Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some…
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle