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Quotes by Historian
"Getting married is easy, having sex is easier, but findings someone who can stimulate your mind and make love to your soul, that is rare."
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"Never pay attention to someone who has not earned your respect."
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"There is no shame in not knowing your history, the shame lies in not finding out."
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"In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own, and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves."
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"Use your hater to make you greater!"
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"This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold."
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"Arrogance is thinking you are above someone else, Confidence is knowing no one is above you."
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"Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one."
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"These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle."
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"Worship, if not the child, is at leastthe brother, of fear."
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"Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it."
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"The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal."
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"If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up."
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"A historian cannot pick and choose his facts, he must deal with all the evidence."
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"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings."
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"I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language."
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"In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain."
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"Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown slave-holders. [W.E.B.] Du Bois considered this physical, mental, and spiritual abuse of black women--with its inevitable result being the destruction of the traditional African family--the highest crime committed by slave-holders and the one thing for which he said he could not forgive them."
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"Stupid people will mistake your confidence for arrogance."
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"Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it."
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"Everything took on the color of blood."
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"Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category."
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"Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success."
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"Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all."
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"This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind."
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"Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have."
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"Her black is beautiful, his society is ugly."
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"Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs."
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"In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen""Whites and Blacks""to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America's ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease."
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"Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image."
Art,
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"He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense."
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"A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew."
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"His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw."
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"Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails."
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"The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance."
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