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long-ago years two
Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I've heard educated white people say, 'slavery was 400 years ago.' No it very wasn't. It was 140 years ago...that's two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That's how recently you could buy a guy. Louis C. K.
long-ago ideas sorrow
This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false. Kurt Vonnegut
long-ago southern thames
I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna. Charles Lyell
long-ago years half
Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience. Betty White
long-ago soldier needs
We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it. Edward Hoagland
long-ago long virtue
There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
long-ago people trying
I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me! Charles M. Schulz
long-ago would-be dull
. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull. Arthur C. Clarke
long-ago childhood forgiving
I was forgiven by forgiving many things Including my long-ago childhood I was healed, but I intended [ to ] heal I've just noticed, the way I was saved by love Though I tried to keep love away. Ayumi Hamasaki
evil statesmen statesmanship
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. Charles Caleb Colton
evil choices goods
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
evil decision choices
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
evil growth rapids
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.
evil giving decision
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.
evil unhappy ends
Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning. Charles Dickens
evil hatred debt
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
evil wells decided
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. Charles Simmons
evil confusion people
We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from. Charles Stanley
minorities majority looks
Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority.
minorities vegan enough
I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan. Carol Leifer
minorities rewards fool
The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money. Adam Smith
minorities plenty
There are plenty of opportunities for minorities on campus, you've just got to take them. David Hillery
minorities done proud
How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag. Cristina Saralegui
minorities purpose majority
The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority. James Madison
minorities association triumph
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous. Lord Acton
minorities arms behavior
The behavior of the minority warranted the sergeant at arms being called. Jim McCrery
minorities mistreated terrible women
It's a terrible place. Women are mistreated there. Minorities are mistreated there.