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Elihu Root Quotes

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

Elihu Root

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: lawyer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 15, 1845 - February 7, 1937

Topics

Nature Perfection Ambition Control

I was just obsessed with soul singers who had these big powerful voices. I used to listen to Aretha, Whitney, Mariah and try and imitate them, note for note and riff for riff.

Jess Glynne

Soul Powerful Try Listen Big Used

Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else. To me, it was important to be able to chew out a player for screwing up and for him to accept it because he knew I liked him anyway.

John Madden

Me Important Accept Knowing Coach

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.

Matthew Continetti

Government People Security Play Role

He who does not want does not act.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Want Act Who He Does

In the current environment, we find it very difficult to defend America, and so we keep our silence. Because, to be very frank with you, how can we defend America?

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

Silence America Environment You Find

Most people with whom I talk, often quite educated, think the military is made up of knife-between-the-teeth grunts, uneducated robots without any kind of free will whatsoever - people who goose step to Republican philosophy and particularly the Bush cowboy mentality.

Rod Lurie

Step People Free Think Philosophy

History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young reader. The young readers in my house, told of slavery and segregation, asked in disbelief, 'What? Why?' We - the parents of black children, the parents of all children - still need to tell that story.

Rumaan Alam

Children History Parents Slavery Why

When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there's no light at all it just looks dead. If you look at light as godly meaning, the world comes alive in a certain way.

Matisyahu

Light Tree World Meaning You Look

You are stronger than you think.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Think Stronger You Than

I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.

Derek Bok

Think White Admit Minority Harvard

I think denim is something everyone feels comfortable in. It's kind of my uniform, really.

Clemence Poesy

Think Uniform Kind Comfortable Feels

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Poverty Intellectual Never Naive