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The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist. Dinaw Mengestu
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The fact is, African Americans have not benefited equally from the improvements that are making a difference. Durado Brooks
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I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed. Aasif Mandvi
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My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America. Toyin Odutola
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Now I've devoted my life to making sure that I can be a trailblazer for any other African American kids or any other gay kids or any other kids that just feel weird or uncomfortable and have their own issues and don't know how to express themselves. I want to be like a beacon for those kids now. Todrick Hall
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Don't say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don't give up 15 minutes before the miracle comes. Everyone's career ebbs and flows, especially if you're African American. That's the time to dig in and keep your instrument sharp. Erik King
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The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources. Erik Hersman
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While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did. Eric Holder
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The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name. Kandyse McClure
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We have asked the teachers union to delay the normal time for contracts in order to allow us to work on the process. Joseph Zwilling
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We have not been able to contact her. The U.S. Embassy and the Red Cross are not allowed to visit her. We have no idea if she is in good health. Xue Donghua
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We have no language to allow wind energy systems in our existing zoning ordinance. Ron Moore
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We have no doubt that the elections in Belarus were not free. There are some 7,000 polling stations in Belarus, but representatives of opposition candidates were allowed to be election commission members at only three stations, which prevented them from monitoring the vote. Vladimir Ryzhkov
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We have no current plans to change our regulations and allow their use during competitive play on any of our three tours. Of course, their use continues to be permitted during practice rounds. Bob Combs
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We have never made it a secret that we allow commercials on talk channels. Jim Collins
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Whenever you allow a team like Dallas to shoot more than 50 percent, things aren't good for you. Bruce Bowen
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When everyone is really busy and feeling stressed out, often the time with your partner is one of the first things to get bumped. Stretching with your loved one turns the tables on the rat race, allowing you both to be in the moment and renewing your connection. Darrin Zeer
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When you see a priest on trial for murder who is allowed to wear his priest garb, we think he creates an undue bias. Claudia Vercellotti
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We want to play with the same rights of the other team, we cannot play with a handicap. Pierre Berbizier
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We have said consistently that General Motors cannot shrink itself to prosperity. In fact, shrinking General Motors only exacerbates its problems. Ron Gettelfinger
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Whenever there is a power cut, the whole shift is distorted and time is lost. Time cannot be reversed. David Murangari
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When you say, 'I don't know,' you cannot then draw a conclusion. That's faulty logic. Joe Nickel
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When your mortality is threatened, it gets your priorities in order. I think, 'It's just modern dance.' I cannot get so worked up. It's important to me, I love doing it, but for God's sake, it's just modern dance. Danial Shapiro
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We were always told we cannot use them, we cannot publish them because it would help Holocaust deniers. Now suddenly these papers are being released to fight the Holocaust deniers. Tom Segev
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We have put financial systems in place to help ensure people do not starve if donations are not immediately forthcoming. But these internal loans cannot be repeated if the international community does not step in to replenish funds. James Morris
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We have proved that India is neither a proliferation threat nor an exporter of sensitive nuclear or missile technology. This cannot be said to be true of all parties to the NPT, Atal Vajpayee
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We have a work to do just as important in its sphere as the Savior's work was in its sphere. Our fathers cannot be made perfect without us; we cannot be made perfect without them. They have done their work and now sleep. We are now called upon to do ours; which is to be the greatest work man ever performed on the earth. Brigham Young
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We have no room literally to spare. Every game, every day is critical to us. Dave Wannstedt
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We have multiple critical injuries and multiple serious injuries and some minor injuries, Willie Williams
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Whenever the department suffers a fatal fire, we take a constructive, critical look at the event. Thomas Galvin
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We've seen how (terrorists) have used our state to assemble, so it's really critical we have the voice of Floridians represented, Mark Foley
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There is critical mass with high-speed Internet connections, so video is a good user experience. And that means there can be critical mass for advertisers. Jim Walton
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When I turned thirteen and took a typing class, with typical early teen enthusiasm and total lack of critical ability, I started sending my stuff to publishers once I'd babysat long enough to earn the postage. Sherwood Smith
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Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that. Stewart Udall
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Being able to have a laboratory on Mars, being able to have some sort of sustained human presence on Mars in the future, I think, is critically important for science. Ellen Stofan
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True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty. Eric Liu
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A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit. Carlos Castaneda
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Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything so he tries, without craving, all of everything. Carlos Castaneda
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A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything. Carlos Castaneda
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It is hard to have patience with people who say, ‘There is no death’ or ‘Death doesn’t matter.’ There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as wel say that birth doesn’t matter. C. S. Lewis
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100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased. C. S. Lewis
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There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading. Agnes Smedley
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So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last Charlie Daniels
death suicide shots
They really are bad shots. Charles de Gaulle
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death. Charles de Gaulle
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It is extremely brazen and it's a top-down fraud, ... It involved literally erasing expenses from the general ledger. E. B. White
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Erasing persecution of gays from the history of the Holocaust repeats the tragic silence of most Germans in the Nazi years. Harry Knox
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It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life. Bruno Walter
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. Bela Lugosi
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Night and day, I sing Your Glorious Praises, God. I praise You, O my Beloved. Granth Sahib
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I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work. Cameron Mackintosh
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Give me that understanding, by which I may meditate on You. I sing Your Glorious Praises with each and every breath. Nanak takes the Support of the Guru's Feet. Granth Sahib
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It's glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from anywhere, and get it instantly. But there's also something glorious about having a record with a sleeve and looking at the artwork, putting it on the turntable and playing it, there's still something romantic to me about that. Conor Oberst
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Those whose minds are pleased by the Praises of the Lord, Har, Har, are joyful in the palaces of their own homes. Their mouths savor all the sweet delicacies when they sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. Granth Sahib
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I think it let us know that we are that one unit, that one heartbeat. I think today is just another step into our glorious run. Oscar Lua
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He taught us - and you - to have glorious fun. To live humbly. To give generously. And to be great at every endeavor. Katherine Harris
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History is not written in the interests of morality. Agnes Repplier
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised. Agnes Repplier
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes. Agnes Repplier
history action function
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. Charles de Gaulle
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The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo. Therese Fowler
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There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-man competition. Because of the history boxing has and the tradition it holds, boxing will always have a that mystique. Sugar Ray Leonard
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Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe. Ashwin Sanghi
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When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere. Toyin Odutola
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What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other. Thomas Starr King
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The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable. C. S. Lewis
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I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Charles Dickens
links spelling bigotry
There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling. David Mitchell
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I'm pretty much on all social media, but Instagram is the coolest, and I use it the most because I take a lot of pictures and I like to post them, but I link them all to each one. Lexi Thompson
links life-is chains
So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it. Arthur Conan Doyle
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It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link. Jane Hamilton
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Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that I was clicking more on my liberal friends' links than on my conservative friends' links. And without consulting me about it, it had edited them out. They disappeared. Eli Pariser
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Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between the family they seek to regulate and the market they hold free. Arlie Russell Hochschild
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What comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link. Eduardo Chillida
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Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV. Carre Otis
mean people judgment
Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable. Carre Otis
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If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well? Carol P. Christ
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Some people have their marriages annulled, which means they never existed. Boy, talk about denial! What do you say when people see your wedding album? 'Oh that was just some play I was in. Carol Leifer
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To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them. Carol Moseley Braun
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Being a good leader today doesn't mean you'll be a good leader 10 years from now. You have to adapt to the times Carlos Ghosn
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Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company. Carlos Ghosn
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You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican. Carlos Fuentes
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My benefactor said that when a man embarks on the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary life has been forever left behind; that knowledge is indeed a frightening affair; that the means of the ordinary world are no longer a buffer for him; and that he must adopt a new way of life if he is going to survive. The first thing he ought to do, at that point, is to want to become a warrior... Carlos Castaneda