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«My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.»
«The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority»
Author: Franz Boas
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
endowment, endowments, inferiority, members, myth, races
«No... the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you / he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.»
Author: Israel Zangwill
(Writer)
| Keywords:
crucible, crucibles, fusion, races, The Coming, The Crucible
«People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in society»
Author: Michael Harrington
(Activist, Writer)
| About:
People,
Poverty,
Society
| Keywords:
cripples, everyone else, races, sensitive
«Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other»
«The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.»
Author: William Beveridge
(Economist, Social Reformer)
| Keywords:
common man, government in, races, rulers, The Object of
«Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
| Keywords:
awe-inspiring, awe, curious, display, inhibition, inhibitions, insane, inspiring, races, simple People
«Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of such varied languages, customs, colors and culinary habits lived so amicably together. Although New York remains peaceful by most standards, this self-congratulation is now less often heard, since it was discovered some years ago that racial harmony depended unduly on the willingness of the blacks (and latterly the Puerto Ricans) to do for the other races the meanest jobs at the lowest wages and then to return to live by themselves in the worst slums.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
amicably, Black race, congratulation, culinary, customs, depended, languages, latterly, meanest, melting pot, Puerto, Puerto Rican, races, racial, repetitively, slum, slums, The Blacks, unduly, varied, visitor, wages, willingness
«There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| Keywords:
arctic, bind, brim, brimming, brims, cheap, fills, In Search Of, LED, literature, melts, motionless, races, spin, spins, spin out, spun, stir, stranded, strands, The Arctic, The Question, The Strand, wretched
«The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend»
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