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The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a region, an ethnos,… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in… — John Baldessari
They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life, and people do not wish to waste their lives once… — Ed Koch
The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew… — Joseph Conrad
SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing. — Philip Greenspun
Theres no hope, none, of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off...By the end of this hour I will be seen… — Anthony Bourdain
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a… — John Ruskin
Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in… — Martin Luther
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen. — Ben Jonson
Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We… — Janet Morris
I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow… — Helen Keller
We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically. — Ron Kind
Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness. — Henry David Thoreau
In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so… — R. D. Laing
Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a… — Susan Rice
Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can't take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can't… — Faye Wattleton
Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from… — Horace Bushnell
Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not… — John Thorn
In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second… — John Romero
The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is prevalent, yes. But… — J. G. Ballard
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. — Thomas Carlyle
Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green. Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully… — William C. Bryant
The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people are charged with… — Dinaw Mengestu

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