"We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law."

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"We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law."

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"Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song."

Zoltan Kodaly, Hungarian Composer

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"It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time."

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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

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"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

Julian Barbour, British Scientist

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"I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future."

Van Jones, American Activist

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"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."

Karl Kraus, Austrian Writer

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"The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character."

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"This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it."

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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."

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"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it."

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"The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me."

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"Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else."

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"We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society."

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"Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there."

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