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“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
“Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him”
Cardinal Richelieu
“The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.”
Warren G. Bennis
“Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to break. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“In Lowell, Indiana, there was a four-hour hostage standoff in a bank. The bank customers were made to line up and stand still for hours . . . just like in a regular visit.”
Bill Maher
“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”
Muhammad Ali
“DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Anybody can write the first line of a poem, but is a very difficult task to make the second line rhyme with the first”
Mark Twain
“Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy”
Charles Gounod
