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"The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it."
Elizabeth Janeway
"The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it."
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"I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air."
Audie Murphy
"I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air."
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"I've got to win every race."
Dale Earnhardt
"I've got to win every race."
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"I never though much about race."
Thelonious Monk
"I never though much about race."
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"The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team."
Dale Earnhardt
"The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team."
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"On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again."
Hank Aaron
"On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again."
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"This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex."
Dan Rather
"This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex."
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"My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000."
Cathy Freeman
"My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000."
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"If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that."
Michael East
"If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that."
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"I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves."
Dale Earnhardt
"I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves."
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"Believe me, you lose more than a gallon of fluids during a race. You could lose between six and 10 pounds during a race, depending on hot it is."
Michael Andretti
"Believe me, you lose more than a gallon of fluids during a race. You could lose between six and 10 pounds during a race, depending on hot it is."
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"Deciding on when to kick is crucial and depends on how the race is unfolding."
Michael East
"Deciding on when to kick is crucial and depends on how the race is unfolding."
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"If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race."
Fred Allen
"If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race."
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"It could potentially be a very competitive race."
Bill Luther
"It could potentially be a very competitive race."
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"Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think."
Constance Baker Motley
"Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think."
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"I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win."
Mark Spitz
"I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win."
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"Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race."
William E. Gladstone
"Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race."
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"I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences."
Marvin Olasky
"I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences."
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"A race cannot be purified from without."
Anna Julia Cooper
"A race cannot be purified from without."
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"The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect."
Dick Morris
"The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect."
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"When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad."
Constance Baker Motley
"When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad."
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"That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race."
Dale Earnhardt
"That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race."
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"I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world."
Joely Fisher
"I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world."
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"I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them."
Amanda Beard
"I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them."
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"We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race."
Dan Aykroyd
"We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race."
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"I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically."
Tom Jenkinson
"I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically."
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"With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go."
Murray Walker
"With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go."
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"The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race."
Lynn Barber
"The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race."
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"It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered."
Damon Hill
"It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered."
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"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged."
Ovid
"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged."
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"I think we should all come together, and that race and color or social demographics really don't matter."
Joanna Noelle Levesque
"I think we should all come together, and that race and color or social demographics really don't matter."
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"It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs."
Jim Hightower
"It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs."
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"The Afro-American is not a bestial race."
Ida B. Wells
"The Afro-American is not a bestial race."
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"I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race."
Mary Docter
"I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race."
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"I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats."
Jerry Nachman
"I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats."
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"I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race."
Honore de Balzac
"I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race."
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"In the biological sense, race does not exist."
Abhijit Naskar
"In the biological sense, race does not exist."
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"She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was *white.* Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt!"
Stephen King
"She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was *white.* Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt!"
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"A 'white' kid that asks too many questions is called 'curious.' A 'black' kid that asks too many questions is called 'forward.'"
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"A 'white' kid that asks too many questions is called 'curious.' A 'black' kid that asks too many questions is called 'forward.'"
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"Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists."
Criss Jami
"Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists."
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"There is nothing like race, is there?"
Oscar Wilde
"There is nothing like race, is there?"
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