Carter G. Woodson Quotes

Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.

Carter G. Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 19, 1875 - April 3, 1950

Topics

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When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

Andres Segovia

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Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

John Lithgow

HumorAcademicsSensesTend

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

John Mayer

CoolThoughtLookDoneNeverWould

Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Simone de Beauvoir

DeadAlwaysOriginalityWriter

You know, my degrees are in computer engineering. I spent a lot of time in the tech industry. And I like to say that I don't invest in tech because I spent time in it. And I saw firsthand that the durability of technology moats is many times an oxymoron.

Mohnish Pabrai

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My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.

Miranda July

LifeDayJobRisksLooking Forward

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

Livy

LawMeetSatisfiedConvenienceWhole

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges

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I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

Donald Trump

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Education was the motor that allowed me to make my way up the ladder.

Chieh Huang

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We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I think that is the most ethical way to reduce our population.

Christian de Duve

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