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WENDELL PHILLIPS The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.
WENDELL PHILLIPS When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outsi...
FRED GREENSTEIN After all the years, after everything that you'd had to endure, after everything that you'd undertak...
MARLENE VAN NIEKERK it takes hope and courage to keep fighting even after the world has given up.
ARDOUR Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of...
WOLE SOYINKA This is an honor for coach Phillips. His selection is well-deserved. Coach Phillips does a good job ...
ERNIE HUGHES If you're asking all this because of Wendell, forget it. Wendell has a few marbles missing when it c...
FRANCISCO X. STORK We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
MICHAEL FOOT There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.
THOMAS L. MASSON What can I say at seventy-five? "Thank God for my good life,and for all the love that has been given...
AGATHA CHRISTIE At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and va...
HOWARD DEAN A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience...
STANLEY BALDWIN There is, after all, no moral difference between the bigot and the tolerator. They are from case to ...
CRISS JAMI All religions, in their pure form, will tell you God is Love. And power, fear, division, judgment, o...
THE TRUTH When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus direct...
THE TRUTH The 'all for me and only me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth.
THE TRUTH When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus direct...
THE TRUTH We need not fear death, for it is simply the next phase of life. We never die, we simply change form...
THE TRUTH Any perceived 'rejection' is simply a 're-direction'.
THE TRUTH Without awareness, every one of us is at risk of living trapped, an unfulfilled trace of our self, b...
THE TRUTH You can always trust the information given to you by people who are crazy; they have an access to tr...
SHEILA BALLANTYNE He can grow into a statesman, as Reagan did. Or he can continue to be a caricature of himself.
BARBARA O'CONNOR Anybody who thinks we can achieve all we set out to achieve in the first three months of our six mon...
JONATHAN ALLEN The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. T...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN You can run from the truth. You can run and hide from the truth.
You can deny and avoid the tru...
DELANO JOHNSON Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost th...
ROBERT CARO He has a taste of what it is like being close. I hope he can get some rest and wrap it up in the mor...
COREY KLINE Seventy percent of the town has suffered catastrophic damage, but all the structures were impacted o...
PAUL SCHEMEL The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been ...
CHARLEY REESE Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together an...
LARRY DOBY If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so yo...
CRAIG GROESCHEL We voted for a statesman, and we got a manager, and not a bad manager. He has, at the same time, bot...
SERGIO AGUAYO Most kids would've given up after a lot less, but Ali is an exception to most rules. He's special, h...
GENE BARBER Technology has had more of an impact on the presidency and how the presidency communicates than anyt...
MARK MCKINNON I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.
NANCY PELOSI Ginsberg turned out to be depressingly prescient when, after a heated argument with Norman Podhoretz...
ROGER KIMBALL It's not about canceling shows, but initiating things on an individual level. When much is given to ...
ANDRE TALLEY It's not about canceling shows, but initiating things on an individual level. When much is given to ...
ANDRE LEON TALLEY The American dimension to Python happened quite late. People said they weren't interested, and we'd ...
MICHAEL PALIN If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
MICHAEL FOOT Whiskey production became an important part of the history of George Washington's business activitie...
FRANK COLEMAN At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to ...
W. EDWARDS DEMING He has always had good game after good game while he has been there. But he's always been looked at ...
KEN HOLLAND I hope you remember that you always have a place to hide, away from the noise of the world, away fro...
JOCELYN SORIANO He has so much potential and so much upside. Everywhere he has gone, he has improved immediately. Be...
JOE ROBINSON The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material t...
JAMES GRAY I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.
EDWARD BURNETT TYLOR I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit ...
EUGENE JARECKI You've given us the time to get this turned around and get the volumes back up, and we deeply apprec...
STEVE JOBS America is unimaginable without New Orleans. If you can imagine 20th Century literature without Tenn...
ANTHONY BARTHELEMY The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or...
FRED A. ALLEN So, after a few months, the tree has turned into a kind of soil or compost that can be used in the g...
HELGE MAY Like all Americans, or like all Americans who are conscious of being American, Parker and Zema's fat...
STEVE ERICKSON All the dreams I had given up; you walked into my life;; now I have hope once more.
DEBBIE NICHOLSON We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ...
LILLIAN S. VILORIA It was just an outstanding effort from the whole squad of 23 players, they all turned up to play.
JAMES MARSHALL Hope?” he says. “There is always hope, John. New developments have yet to present themselves. No...
PITTACUS LORE I don't think Mr. Sharon has given up his hope of achieving the ultimate post of prime minister. As ...
CHEMI SHALEV Once a women has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic tru...
LARRY DRAKE I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long...
BILL COSBY I think you can fairly say I spawned or laid an egg that has turned into a lifestyle industry.
MARTHA STEWART My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting,...
FRANK O'HARA This team has always given us problems. I hope by the end of the season we can get better and surpri...
CORY SAPP He's the kind of player who we don't have anyone to guard him. With what he does, at his size.... He...
RICK BYRD We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing e...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT He has turned a small legal battle about privacy into public questioning of his entire role. He has ...
JUDY WADE Gene Upshaw (NFLPA executive director) is doing all he can to get the best deal for the players. And...
ANTWAAN RANDLE EL And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?"
And I said "Yes," because lo...
MARK HADDON And how many an angel is there in the heavens whose intercession does not avail at all except after ...
QURAN A Trump presidency will turn the economy around and restore the great American tradition of giving e...
IVANKA TRUMP Given the key role gospel music has played in American culture, we feel this project is going to be ...
DAVID GOUGH The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.
DEAN ACHESON Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good dige...
GEORGE HERBERT You got up off the bathroom floor. That’s a start. Now, just stay off the floor. After all—aside...
SARAH SPANN Many an American Congressman comes to Washington from a district attorney's office: you may be sure ...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the ...
GEORGE MCGOVERN Why don't you show us a statesman who can rise up to the
emergency, and cave in the emergency's hea...
ARTEMUS WARD (PSEUDONYM OF CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE) Why don't you show us a statesman who can rise up to the emergency, and cave in the emergency's head...
CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE But he can back the talk up, ... He always backs it up. You can talk all you want, but at the same t...
IKE TAYLOR I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. ...
DEBBIE MEYER There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of...
BEN STILLER I got an A on the third quiz in American history,
an A,
dammit.
Last time I got a ...
THALIA CHALTAS Most of us avoid telling the truth because it’s uncomfortable. We’re afraid of the consequences�...
JACK CANFIELD The Consumer Product Safety Commission has an advisory (on maximum lead content), and they can get a...
CHARLES MARGULIS Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.
MIRA GRANT He didn't get too many calls. He has to just keep taking it to the hole and maybe he'll get some cal...
JASON KIDD Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sens...
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sens...
E. B. WHITE If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can'...
BERNARD BARUCH An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
HENRI BERGSON The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle....
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
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WENDELL PHILLIPS The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.
WENDELL PHILLIPS The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
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WENDELL PHILLIPS The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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WENDELL PHILLIPS Revolutions never go backward.
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WENDELL PIERCE Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those peo...
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WENDELL MAYES While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
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WENDELL BERRY An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they canno...
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WENDELL BERRY The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent fo...
WENDELL BERRY These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said...
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WENDELL BERRY Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are no...
WENDELL BERRY The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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WENDELL BERRY To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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WENDELL BERRY Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and s...
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WENDELL BERRY Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and sh...
WENDELL BERRY Words and sentences are subject to revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of previ...
BARRETT WENDELL This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
OLIVER WENDELL Geese appear high over us,
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in love or sleep, holds
them to the...
WENDELL BERRY Those who say Islam is a warlike religion
must ask if Christianity has been as well.
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We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant wo...
WENDELL BERRY say that your main crop is the forest.
WENDELL BERRY If you start a conversation with the assumption
that you are right or that you must win,
obviously i...
WENDELL BERRY You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.
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WENDELL BERRY In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind...
WENDELL BERRY Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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WENDELL BERRY The world is whole beyond human knowing.
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WENDELL BERRY It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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WENDELL BERRY You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
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WENDELL BERRY We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq
resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.
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WENDELL BERRY A farmer's market is worth more than
everything I've written.
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WENDELL BERRY The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, g...
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WENDELL WILLKIE What I stand for is what I stand on.
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WENDELL BERRY The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosyste...
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WENDELL MAYES When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it...
WENDELL BERRY Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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WENDELL BERRY How to be a Poet (to remind myself)
Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat.
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WENDELL BERRY It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the stro...
WENDELL WILLKIE In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
WENDELL BERRY The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
WENDELL WILLKIE “Eating is an agricultural act.”
WENDELL BERRY Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps...
WENDELL BERRY The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
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WENDELL BERRY If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power host...
WENDELL WILLKIE To me, that's not enough punishment. But what I want most from him is an apology.
WENDELL TACKETT For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take aw...
WENDELL WILLKIE The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
WENDELL WILLKIE Free men are the strongest men.
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WENDELL WILLKIE The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana....
WENDELL BERRY Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and ...
WENDELL BERRY Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there wil...
WENDELL BERRY But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, a...
WENDELL WILLKIE It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world....
WENDELL BERRY Not too many teams get a chance to play against a state-ranked team that has only one loss. We look ...
WENDELL JEFFRIES What they do is they're consistent in the their offensive attack. They don't vary. They're precise. ...
WENDELL BYRD With Oracle shares currently trading at 34 times our revised [calendar year 2001] EPS estimate of 43...
WENDELL LAIDLEY I talked to [Roy] prior to that. We spoke cordially before the game. We make contact on the phone wi...
WENDELL BYRD It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numer...
WENDELL BERRY We played hard and we played good defense. We just didn't shoot well. People can preach team (play) ...
WENDELL JEFFRIES When a balance between Trinidad and island interests is being served, and the Caribbean is again spe...
WENDELL MOTTLEY Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at ...
WENDELL BERRY No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever ca...
WENDELL BERRY The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
WENDELL BERRY Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To b...
WENDELL BERRY ...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...
WENDELL BERRY We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...
WENDELL BERRY Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u...
WENDELL BERRY We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Someti...
WENDELL BERRY Sabbaths, 1982—IV
(“A gardener rises out of the ground”)
Thrush song,...
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