No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
William Cowper
Recitation: by Male by Female
The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic relations, deprive loyal men of their property, and disloyal as well, without trial or condemnation.
Melville Fuller
MenPresidentWithoutPropertyMay
I have always heard that you need to give yourself a long time to unplug when you do a sabbatical. I unplugged so fast I was a little concerned that I was losing brain capacity.
John Ortberg
TimeYourselfLosingBrainLongYou
I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories.
Maxine Waters
TimeMeDoingTryingLongDown
One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So there's a kind of sport-like aspect to the American coverage of finance.
John Lanchester
FinanceFinancialAmericanGambling
Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it's much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.
Anna D. Shapiro
MeConversationMoreEveryoneMay
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
Toni Morrison
LoveLove IsThin
The beauty of the university world is that you can use it as a microcosm to parody anything in the 'real' world.
Ronny Chieng
BeautyWorldYouRealAnythingUse
If you're right, than be right. There's no need to hurt others.
Logic
HurtYouOthersNeedRightThan
A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an op-ed style argument.
Julia Bacha
ChangeStylePresentArgumentCreate
I hate all that nonsense about not touching the colonialists' language. All that about it being corrupting and belonging to the master and making you Caliban. That thinking just denies you an outlet. You deny everything that is great from a language, whether it is Conrad or Shakespeare.
Derek Walcott
GreatHateThinkingLanguageYou
Adding an Olympic medal to everything that I have already accomplished would be so huge for me.
Ashley Wagner
MeEverythingWouldAccomplished
The people standing up most strongly for our democracies should be celebrated, not prosecuted - be it those countless human rights defenders who defend all our rights or the brave whistle-blowers who expose tax dodging.
Winnie Byanyima
PeopleBraveTaxHumanDefendUp
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