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• The inference is, that God has restated the superiority of the West. God always does like that when a thousand white people surround one dark one. Dark people are always "bad" when they do not admit the Divine Plan like that. A certain Javanese man who sticks up for Indonesian Independence is very lowdown by the papers, and suspected of being a Japanese puppet.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Dark, Men, White

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.166, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• A thick stick in one's hand makes people respectful.

  Lewis Carroll

  Respect, Hands, People

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “The Complete Lewis Carroll Collection (Illustrated)”, p.389, Tyché

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• You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!

  Charles Dickens

  Animal, Mind, Facts

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Barnaby Rudge: And, Hard Times”, p.375

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• There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.

  John Donne

  Hook, Benefits, Draws

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.481

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• If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.

  Herman Melville

  Wine, Luxury, Water

  Herman Melville (1855). “Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile”, p.76

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• No matter how close thought sticks to the actual, it follows its own rules.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Matter

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• Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.

  Jack Kerouac

  Children, Men, Civilization

  Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.88, Penguin

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• The dreary flies, lazy and casual,
  Stick to the ceiling, buzz along the wall.
  O heart, the spider shuffles from the mould
  Weaving, between the pinks and grapes, his pall.

  Allen Tate

  Wall, Heart, Lazy

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.35, Macmillan

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• bike downtown, stick out tongues at the Catholics.
  Or form a Piss Club where we all go
  in the bushes and peek at each other's sex.

  Anne Sexton

  Sex, Games, Childhood

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Father, Promise, Pay

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• As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and he the mighty conqueror of all he beholds.... As long as mother sticks around in the wings, the mighty acrobat confidently performs his trick of twirling in circles, walking on tiptoe, jumping, climbing, staring, naming. He is joyous, filled with his grandeur and wondrous omnipotence.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Omnipotence, Circles

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• It isn't how long you stick around but what you put over while you are here.

  George Ade

  Long

  George Ade (1920). “Hand-made Fables”

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• The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Teacher, Children, Struggle

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• Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Men, Angle, Bundles

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• No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

  H. L. Mencken

  Walking Sticks, Lynching, Revolution

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• There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

  Seneca the Younger

  Generosity, Giving, Grace

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too, on the meaning and significance of the color white. I dreamed of white birds and white bears. I thought about the white pages of my mother's journals. I became enthralled with John Cage and his work, 4'33”, his masterpiece of ambient sound. Rauschenberg, too. And then at some point I let go. What sticks to the soul is what gets placed on the page. Maybe that's the unknown part, the mystery, the power of the empty page.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Letting Go, Mother, Art

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• Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Morning, Book, Heart

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.449, Wordsworth Editions

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• Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Advice, Vilify

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• You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be OK.

  Warren Buffett

  Silly, Investing Money, People

  "Warren Buffett - In 1974". Forbes Article, www.forbes.com. April 30, 2008.

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• ... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I spent upon algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, of which not one principle remains with me. Stay! There is one theorem painfully drummed into my head which seems to have inhabited some corner of my brain since that early time: "The square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides!" There it sticks, but what of it, ye gods, what of it?

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

  Squares, Two Sides, Brain

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• If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Errors, Sides, Needs

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876”, p.221, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.

  Philip Sidney

  Gold, Rotten, Dirt

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.

  Arthur Helps

  Wise, Winning, Men

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.114

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• Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.

  John W. Gardner

  Mean, School, Cutting

  John W. Gardner (1971). “The Recovery of Confidence”

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