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• Along with the fight to desegregate schools, we must desegregate the entire cultural statement of America, we must desegregate the minds of the American people or we will find that we have won the battle and lost the war.

  John Oliver Killens

  War, School, Fighting

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• The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash. We had gone from sitting still on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center to traveling at 17,500 miles an hour in that eight and a half minutes. It is still mind-boggling to me. I recall making some statement on the air-to-ground radio for the benefit of my fellow astronauts, who had also been in the program a long time, that it was well worth the wait.

  Robert Crippen

  Airplane, Eight, Sitting Still

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• The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

  J. William Fulbright

  Peace, War, Government

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• The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.

  William James

  Sorry, Apology, May

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.243, Courier Corporation

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• There is one statement I want you to keep after you are finished with this book. It is more of a mantra, really. Nonetheless, let it crawl across your mind any time you feel you have been backed into a corner spiritually. It is very simple: Live your life, no matter what life is. Take that with you. Live your life. No matter what that life is.

  Corey Taylor

  Life, Book, Simple

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• Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

  Mason Cooley

  Inspirational, Halloween, Autumn

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• Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, Science, Looks

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• When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Patriotic, Heart

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.

  Seneca the Younger

  May, Take Time, Expected

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• If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Philosophy, Believe, Angel

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• I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.

  William Westmoreland

  Military, Offensive, Made

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• I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It's more important.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Important, North Carolina

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• There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect, I humbly dissent. I am not being brave, I'm a decent human being... Love is a human experience, not a political statement

  Anne Hathaway

  Gay, Love Is, People

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• I've never thought of the Olympics as a political statement. I really think a boycott ... is in the wrong as far as the athletes are concerned.

  Johnny Weir

  Athlete, Gay, Thinking

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• Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our guesses are guided by the unscientific, the metaphysical (though biologically explicable) faith in laws, in regularities which we can uncover-discover. Like Bacon, we might describe our own contemporary science-'the method of reasoning which men now ordinarily apply to nature'-as consisting of 'anticipations, rash and premature' and as 'prejudices'.

  Karl Popper

  Nature, Science, Men

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• If a cat had a halo, it would probably wear it around it's tail. It makes a statement.

  Sergio Aragones

  Cat, Halos, Tails

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• Affirmation statements are going beyond the reality of the present into the creation of the future through the words you use in the now.

  Louise Hay

  Reality, Use, Affirmation

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• Personal power involves producing success through modeling what works and taking consistent action towards your goals. At the same time, you have to internalize behavioral and belief changes in order to take the necessary action to produce the results. It's been said that successful people do what others won't, and that if you believe you can or you believe you can't, you're right. Both of those statements are true.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Believe, Successful

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• Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences, whilst the historian of man is constantly at fault as to dates and even the sequence of events, to say nothing of the contradicting statements which he is forced to reconcile.

  Roderick Murchison

  Science, Men, Events

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• There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Science, Philosopher, Absurd

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• Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Despair, Trying, Way

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• Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Color, Consistency, Trying

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• People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.

  E. W. Howe

  Cutting, People, Bragging

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• Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The offering must be presented to some deity. Since God is pure and holy, and will accept nothing defiling in its character, He refuses this expensive, filthy, and unholy sacrifice; therefore we conclude that Satan is the one who claims the honor.

  Ellen G. White

  Character, Sacrifice, Men

  Ellen G. White (2000). “Steps to Christ for a Joy-Filled Life”

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• The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.

  Stephen Covey

  Philosophy, Character, Focus

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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