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«There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three centuries ago, and they quickly imposed it on the Africans-who were not allowed to learn to read and write-and on the Native Americans, who were simply not allowed.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
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«Our history sings of centuries Such varying songs it sings! It starts with winds, slow moving sails, It ends with skies and wings»
Author: Catherine Cate Coblentz
| About:
History
| Keywords:
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«Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.»
Author: G. M. Trevelyan
| About:
Action,
God
| Keywords:
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«The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place»
«I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.»
Author: Robert Mueller
| About:
Men and Women,
Women
| Keywords:
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«I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.»
Author: Sir George Porter
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«Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries.»
Author: John Muir
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«Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek»
Author: Tom Robbins
(Novelist)
| About:
Angels,
Dancing,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
argued, centuries, cheek, Cheek to Cheek, dancing, philosophers, pin, pinned, pin up, The Pin
«I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles. They say things like they don't want men opening doors for them anymore, and they don't want men lighting their cigarettes for them anymore. Big deal. Black women have been opening doors for themselves and lighting their own cigarettes for a couple centuries in this country. Black women don't quibble about things that are not important.»
Author: Wilma Rudolph
(Runner)
| Keywords:
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«I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battles or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| Keywords:
battles, centuries, cities, contribution, defeats, remembered, victories
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