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"Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity."
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113 Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates has 113 quotes on this site.
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Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
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America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just…
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The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.
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Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any…
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The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale…
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There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election…
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I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular…
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If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.
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My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to…
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An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement.
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The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes,…
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In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched…
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More Complexity Quotes
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Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
— Alfred Austin
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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when…
— Russell Baker
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There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he…
— Christian Bale
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Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies…
— Antonio Banderas
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Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict…
— Emily Blunt
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification…
— Edward de Bono
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When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your…
— Nolan Bushnell
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
— Paul Cezanne
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After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
— Lionel Trilling
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Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of…
— Unknown Author
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