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We're dealing with whether we're going to accept the idea of socialism and Marxism and athei...
BURGESS OWENS

My dad and uncles were among the 125,000 proud black American volunteers who, throughout their entir...
BURGESS OWENS

On our way to the Super Bowl XV Championship, the Oakland Raiders played a frigid 1981 AFC playoff g...
BURGESS OWENS

Dubois was the first black American to graduate from Harvard. He was accepted within the northern wh...
BURGESS OWENS

White Americans, stop apologizing; we live in the greatest country in the history of mankind, and it...
BURGESS OWENS

I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by...
BURGESS OWENS

The NAACP was not a black-run, black-originated organization. It was run by 21 white, socialist, ath...
BURGESS OWENS

As a former NFL player, I am one American who will have nothing to do with any NFL Team that cannot ...
BURGESS OWENS

We don't have to wonder or drift with society; the Lord has a very strong and clear pathway of w...
BURGESS OWENS

W. E. B Dubois used the NAACP platform for two decades to discredit the character, reputation, and f...
BURGESS OWENS

From 1865 to 1965, my race, the black race, was one of the most competitive, entrepreneurial, Christ...
BURGESS OWENS

In the decades since my youth, I've witnessed the explosion of fatherless families and an expone...
BURGESS OWENS

As black Americans continue to be insulted and dismissed by protected white liberals, the Black Tale...
BURGESS OWENS

As its citizens humbly recommit to an acceptance of guidance from the God of our fathers, our nation...
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The visionary, industrious, Christian, and segregated black community of the early- to mid-1960s und...
BURGESS OWENS

We read of the courageous march south to battle the Confederate Army by the all-black 54th Massachus...
BURGESS OWENS

It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King, Jr. generat...
BURGESS OWENS

We do not have a racial crisis; we have an ideology crisis. We have socialists, Marxists, and libera...
BURGESS OWENS

As a 10-year veteran of the NFL, I had a unique perspective weekly to see the heartfelt commitment o...
BURGESS OWENS

There was a different, visionary team commitment that guided the black community at the beginning of...
BURGESS OWENS

I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against ...
BURGESS OWENS

The Talented Tenth is alive and well today and visible in all arenas of prominence. 'That they m...
BURGESS OWENS

The mantra for the Obama campaign and their surrogates has focused on one thing regarding race, whic...
BURGESS OWENS

If you wonder why urban young black women are allowing themselves to be victimized by Planned Parent...
BURGESS OWENS

I am thrilled and proud of Benjamin Watson for speaking up on behalf of innocent black lives, tradit...
BURGESS OWENS

Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marr...
BURGESS OWENS

We need to step up because our past generations did their jobs; we now need to do ours.
BURGESS OWENS

It is no accident that this country has been blessed with its abundance and its history as the frees...
BURGESS OWENS

We understood, growing up - 'cause it was taught in our family home, my mom and dad - to respect...
BURGESS OWENS

Dubois, later in his life, would join the Communist party and renounce his American citizenship. His...
BURGESS OWENS

The true fans were capable of not only painting their cars and homes their team colors, but also nam...
BURGESS OWENS

One of these days, I'm going to stop learning through my errors.
BURGESS OWENS To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnersh...
MICHAEL BURGESS

I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything ...
ANTHONY BURGESS

I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audie...
ANTHONY BURGESS

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
ANTHONY BURGESS

When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a seri...
ANTHONY BURGESS

I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose...
ANTHONY BURGESS

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectu...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,00...
ANTHONY BURGESS

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Every dogma has its day.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of reti...
ANTHONY BURGESS

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
ANTHONY BURGESS

I didn't think; I experimented.
ANTHONY BURGESS

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experiment...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use t...
ANTHONY BURGESS

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come fr...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
ANTHONY BURGESS There are no bona fide treatments available for embryonic stem cells. There is nothing in the labora...
MICHAEL BURGESS

That's the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters ...
GEMMA BURGESS

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New Engl...
ANTHONY BURGESS

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
ANTHONY BURGESS

I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd mo...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
GELETT BURGESS

Readers of the twenty-first chapter must decide for themselves whether it enhances the book they pre...
ANTHONY BURGESS

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fic...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a no...
ANTHONY BURGESS

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful.
GELETT BURGESS

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.
GELETT BURGESS

We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve a...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a p...
ANTHONY BURGESS

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
GELETT BURGESS

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their...
ANTHONY BURGESS

The English language is being augmented every year by about 400 new words. We cannot cope. We are dr...
ANTHONY BURGESS

The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Ah, yes, I wrote the Purple Cow -- I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you, anyhow, I'll kill...
GELETT BURGESS

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs
ANTHONY BURGESS

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of reti...
ANTHONY BURGESS

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
ANTHONY BURGESS

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
ANTHONY BURGESS Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and no...
MITCHELL BURGESS Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese be...
MITCHELL BURGESS If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflectio...
MITCHELL BURGESS Your Guardians of Freedom is a new program that enables unit commanders and Airmen to quickly commun...
MICHAEL BURGESS I'm comfortable airing my laundry. I don't think one thing's dirty or clean. It's ju...
TITUSS BURGESS Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the cor...
GUY BURGESS

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
ANTHONY BURGESS No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can a...
MICHAEL BURGESS I never had any trouble being myself. Myself was a problem for a lot of people, but I didn't hav...
TITUSS BURGESS

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
ANTHONY BURGESS Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing em...
MICHAEL BURGESS Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly ...
MICHAEL BURGESS He just played dumb on the stand. He remembered some facts and didn't remember others.
BILL BURGESS It'll free staff up for other services.
BILL BURGESS Our ultimate goal is to have all landlords maintain their properties in a safe and sanitary fashion.
BILL BURGESS (The owner) is going to face some fines. The reason why we're going through the code enforcement pro...
BILL BURGESS They're in violation of the standards for basic equipment. Some are immediate electrical hazards. So...
BILL BURGESS We've taken three through the process. Two were dismissed because they brought property into complia...
BILL BURGESS

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New Engl...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn...
ANTHONY BURGESS Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that'...
MELVIN BURGESS We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 pe...
MICHAEL BURGESS

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
ANTHONY BURGESS I believe that States should be credited for their non-Federal investment in revenue-generating tran...
MICHAEL BURGESS I am well aware of my good fortune, and I only hope to diversify so I can do what I'm already do...
TITUSS BURGESS I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.
BURGESS MEREDITH

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your...
GELETT BURGESS On stage, everyone stays put; the vantage point is always the vantage point, and you have to play to...
TITUSS BURGESS

He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
ANTHONY BURGESS The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
MITCHELL BURGESS Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's.
MARTHA BURGESS

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the nece...
GELETT BURGESS

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
ANTHONY BURGESS When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job coll...
MELVIN BURGESS Especially today, given the tight fiscal situation that many States and localities face, the use of ...
MICHAEL BURGESS I will work for Tina Fey forever.
TITUSS BURGESS I prayed fervently for a series regular job on a show that had the perceived caliber of talent that ...
TITUSS BURGESS

When we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract
ANTHONY BURGESS

There is lots of scope for European banking deals.
ANTHONY BURGESS I make amazing fried chicken. The secret is taco seasoning.
TITUSS BURGESS (With the M16) we've been able to attend to details that we couldn't with last year's car.
ADRIAN BURGESS After Indianapolis (US Grand Prix), we would not have thought we could take any more points but this...
ADRIAN BURGESS With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some ...
MICHAEL BURGESS Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisf...
MICHAEL BURGESS I get to do some unbelievably layered things. The material that I'm given is so complex, and I&#...
TITUSS BURGESS She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you....
MELVIN BURGESS There was some consolation for them in that the person responsible was still on scene when police ar...
ANDY BURGESS We'll go with the most economical option.
ANDY BURGESS We urge all senior citizens who believe they qualify for this discount to contact their natural gas ...
DAVE BURGESS In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business ...
MICHAEL BURGESS

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
ANTHONY BURGESS

As for the new world war that's waiting in the womb of time, a healthily developed foetus, who can s...
ANTHONY BURGESS It's frustrating that we've lost a new vehicle.
ANDY BURGESS When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and...
MICHAEL BURGESS They stay like this, in silence, both aware that they have created something together. Defiance. A p...
TONY BURGESS Nursing homes should be a last resort, and that's what a lot of this is moving toward.
MICHAEL BURGESS One game we stopped their main scorers. But then the other players hurt us. Everyone is a threat on ...
BARBARA BURGESS The bottom fell out. Every time we've played them, that's what has happened. We just couldn't get ov...
BARBARA BURGESS The only thing with zones is that you can't leave their shooters open. Our best bet is to go man-to-...
BARBARA BURGESS It appears that humans are doing a better job of avoiding being bitten, and on the rare occasion whe...
GEORGE BURGESS Olivia [Elias] is one of the best players in the state at this moment. She is technically superior a...
STEVE BURGESS

Badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bo...
ANTHONY BURGESS

We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.
ANTHONY BURGESS The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders wit...
MICHAEL BURGESS The thing he said aloud did not succeed.
TONY BURGESS I hover closer to earth than I do the clouds.
TITUSS BURGESS

Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
ANTHONY BURGESS Why have so many schools reduced the time and emphasis they place on art, music, and physical educat...
DAVE BURGESS I tell you, my naps are epic. They win awards.
TITUSS BURGESS It's always hard to beat a team three times. We were drained after that last win (57-56), so we need...
BARBARA BURGESS He was distraught. He looked just as confused as I was.
JEREMY BURGESS

Maybe Plum was right. There are no good men. Only different degrees of bad ones.
GEMMA BURGESS

Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they shoul...
ANTHONY BURGESS Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The expe...
MELVIN BURGESS I've done everything. All of it. You think it, I've done it. All the things you never dared, all the...
MELVIN BURGESS Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song.
TITUSS BURGESS

We were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small ...
ANTHONY BURGESS I love 'Bates Motel.' I'm a huge Vera Farmiga fan, and I'm a huge Freddie Highmore f...
TITUSS BURGESS Last year he won the OCC and was second in the sectional and a (Division I) district qualifier. He i...
NICK BURGESS If some of the artificial and nonsensical limitations are eliminated, then our industry will be less...
BRANDON BURGESS This refinancing is an important first step towards maximizing the full potential of our unique dist...
BRANDON BURGESS This refinancing is an important first step towards maximizing the full potential of our unique dist...
BRANDON BURGESS I'd say it unfolded like we planned it.
DERRICK BURGESS We recognize what everybody else does, that this is a huge, growing, influential part of our audienc...
JOHN BURGESS You don't want to grab their tail or touch them, go for a ride or do anything that alters their natu...
GEORGE BURGESS Disarming behavior, where you have two sides involved in a conflict that everybody has stereotypes o...
GUY BURGESS We have different personalities and different skills and the kind of things that we do, we can do to...
GUY BURGESS One of the big problems with the conflict resolution field and one of the real challenges is to move...
GUY BURGESS One of the reasons we're so fascinated by the Internet, is that it has the ability to eliminate what...
GUY BURGESS Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the...
GUY BURGESS

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although. . . he may be permitted to be an intellec...
ANTHONY BURGESS

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed
ANTHONY BURGESS (Cleaves) is, I guess you could say, multi-dimensional. She's our best defender, but she's also had ...
MARQUETTE BURGESS Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The expe...
MELVIN BURGESS He was a magician. He could teach technique like no one I've ever seen.
MIKE BURGESS We don't know how it's going to be structured, but it will help more people get through emergencies ...
MIKE BURGESS I'm excited to join Photo Stencil's team. I plan to grow the business through superior printing/sten...
MIKE BURGESS I'm not one of those people to outgrow my initial blessings.
TITUSS BURGESS I enjoy my alone time, but I'm an open book.
TITUSS BURGESS

To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.
ANTHONY BURGESS [When asked what constituted a] shark attack, ... We count 'em all, if it involves a shark and a bit...
GEORGE BURGESS You can do anything you want. You don't believe me. You think, she's out of her head. Yeah, I'm out ...
MELVIN BURGESS

By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and e...
ANTHONY BURGESS Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix.
MICHAEL BURGESS I worked at Ruby Foos early on as a host. I was only there for a little bit, but I had several odd j...
TITUSS BURGESS It's an interactive teacher; you just point where you want it to go and it'll tell you what you need...
LUKE BURGESS

I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice m...
ANTHONY BURGESS Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.
MICHAEL BURGESS I call him Cool Hand Luke. That's his name, because nothing gets to him, on the field or off the fie...
DERRICK BURGESS But it still hurts. It hurt the team. I probably did like, this, on the guy. I don't know, man. That...
DERRICK BURGESS When practice comes, they both come every day to play and work at getting better. When you're a star...
DERRICK BURGESS I mean, I knew it had been bad here back in the day,
DERRICK BURGESS I still think it will.
DERRICK BURGESS It's an adjustment. But we are going to see how it works out for the team and what we're going to do...
DERRICK BURGESS It was hard, because we didn't get a couple of things done to stop them.
DERRICK BURGESS I could see what was happening. There was a good group, a good nucleus there. They just needed a boo...
DERRICK BURGESS The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care ...
MICHAEL BURGESS

Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insince...
ANTHONY BURGESS And now, no matter what I thought I had done or why I did it, it has become completely untrue becaus...
TONY BURGESS

We live in the greatest country in the history of mankind every single day.

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