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• I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of the United States can be written honestly without including the Negro. I didn't [paint] just as a historical thing, but because I believe these things tie up with the Negro today. We don't have a physical slavery, but an economic slavery. If these people, who were so much worse off than the people today, could conquer their slavery, we can certainly do the same thing....I am not a politician. I'm an artist, just trying to do my part to bring this thing about.

  Jacob Lawrence

  Believe, School, Artist

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• There have been 15 or 16 screenplays over the years, including one by me, but none of them has gotten made because Paramount is a huge studio. The Dice Man is an anti-establishment cult novel and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.

  Luke Rhinehart

  Dark, Men, Years

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• Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals, including when we eat our meals, how we shower or groom, or how we approach our daily descent into the digital world of email communication.

  Chip Conley

  Communication, Email, Meals

  "What’s Your Daily Offering?" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2011.

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• Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Long, Prevention

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.40, Inkling Books

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• In high school there were so many Jennifers, I had all sorts of names, including Jo-Jen, Jenna, Jenna-Bean, and Jenny A.

  Jennifer Aniston

  School, Names, Jenny

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• The grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special focus on evolution in our own biosphere, is something intrinsically good that it is right to preserve and enhance, and wrong to destroy and degrade.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Moving, Men, Focus

  "Science and the Problem of Values". Book by Roger Wolcott Sperry, p. 127, 1972.

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• Don't Latin Americans have the right to ask why their elected governments are being opposed and coup leaders supported?.. Poverty and hardship in large parts of Africa are preventing this from happening. Don't they have the right to ask why their enormous wealth - including minerals - is being looted, despite the fact that they need it more than others?

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Latin, Government, Leader

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter to George W. Bush, www.washingtonpost.com. May 9, 2006.

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• No one supposed that dinoflagellates might actively kill fish as an evolved response for their own specific advantage, including a potential nutritional benefit for the algal cells. And yet the dinoflagellates do seem to be killing and eating fishes in a manner suggesting active evolution for this most peculiar reversal.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Cells, Peculiar, Benefits

  Stephen Jay Gould (1998). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History”, Harmony

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• There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is.

  Russell Baker

  Years, May, Berlin

  Russell Baker (1981). “So this is depravity”, Pocket Books

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• The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but when the grave closed over his victims he was essentially finished with them unless he remembered to curse their succeeding progeny. Not until the advent of the Prince of Peace do we hear of the ghastly idea of further punishing and torturing the dead.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Ideas, Suffering, Prince Of Peace

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything”, p.140, Hachette UK

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• We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we may as well calm down: construction is not absolute. Our virtue is this: by cultivating the exact we have laid the foundations for a science of art, including the unknown X.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Succeed, Foundation

  Statement of 1917. "Teaching at the Bauhaus". Book by Rainer Wick and Gabriele Diana Grawe, p. 231, 2000.

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• Bhutto represents everything the fundamentalists hate - a powerful, highly-educated woman operating in a man's world, seemingly unafraid to voice her independent views and, indeed, seemingly unafraid of anything, including the very real possibility that one day someone might succeed in killing her because of who she is.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Powerful, Hate, Real

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• The most important thing is that man should be the measure of all structures, including economic structures, and not that man be made to measure for those structures. The most important thing is not to lose sight of personal relationships - i.e., the relationships between man and his co-workers, between subordinates and their superiors, between man and his work, between this work and its consequences.

  Vaclav Havel

  Men, Sight, Important

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq.

  Jalal Talabani

  Religious, Heart, Iraq

  "Drafting A Constitution". editorials.voa.gov. August 02, 2005.

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• The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)

  Larry Wall

  Order, Years, Court

  Usenet article, 1998.

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• It is ironic to watch the churches, including large sections of my own religion, surrendering to the spirit of modernity at the very moment when modernity itself is undergoing a kind of spiritual collapse.

  Irving Kristol

  Spiritual, Ironic, Church

  Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.440, Simon and Schuster

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• Much of the early engineering development of digital computers was done in universities. A few years ago, the view was commonly expressed that universities had played their part in computer design, and that the matter could now safely be left to industry. [...] Apart from the obvious functions of keeping in the public domain material that might otherwise be hidden, universities can make a special contribution by reason of their freedom from commercial considerations, including freedom from the need to follow the fashion.

  Maurice Wilkes

  Fashion, Views, Engineering

  "Computers Then and Now". Journal of the ACM 15, Sect. 1, (pp. 1-7), January 1968.

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• A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.

  Jean Chretien

  Government, Leader, Unions

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chrétien, 1985.

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• It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

  Benjamin Graham

  Needs, Economist, Misfortunes

  "World Commodities and World Currencies". Book by Benjamin Graham, Chapter X, Commodity Unit Stabilization, p. 109, 1944.

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• The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and to the Persian Gulf region.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Community, Nuclear, Weapons

  Condoleezza Rice's remarks on Iran, www.nytimes.com. May 31, 2006.

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• I do not think he [Reagan] put names and faces together but for a small group of people. There were a few, perhaps half a dozen reporters, that Reagan recognized, including my colleague Lou Cannon, and some from television and the wire services. The rest of us were faces.

  David E. Hoffman

  Thinking, Names, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If you believe you're right...stand up and fight for your place in the sun. If you believe you can do it, hang in for the whole 15 rounds because even if you don't win, you will have earned the respect of everyone in the fight, including yourself, and in that sense you will have prevailed.

  Erin Brockovich

  Believe, Fighting, Winning

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• I was forgiven by forgiving many things Including my long-ago childhood I was healed, but I intended [ to ] heal I've just noticed, the way I was saved by love Though I tried to keep love away.

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Long Ago, Childhood, Forgiving

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• Everybody knows - but no one wants to say - that the Democratic Party has become the party of special interest bigots and racial dividers. It runs the one-party state that controls public services in every major inner city, including the corrupt and failing school systems in which half the students - mainly African American and Hispanic - are denied a shot at the American dream.

  David Horowitz

  Running, Dream, Party

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• I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.

  Robert E. Howard

  Country, Race, Interest

  Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, August 9, 1932.

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