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• I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.

  Donald Freed

  Dream, Failure, Mean

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• In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.71, Penguin

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• The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes closed-mindedness and a narrow understanding of knowledge to hold that "race" is such an overwhelming concept that it negates the validity of any insights contained in a work that may have some racist or sexist aspects.

  Bell Hooks

  Racism, Understanding, African American

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• A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.

  Rick Larsen

  Leadership, Nature, Science

  "America Is Losing The Competition For The Arctic". Interview with Deb Reichmann, www.businessinsider.com. January 01, 2014.

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• The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Believe, History, Religion

  "Islamic State changes battle protocols in response to airstrikes". "AM" with Michael Vincent, www.abc.net.au. September 30, 2014.

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• Please stop using the word "Negro."... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Names, People, Together

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• Race was a word that bred arrogance, danger and violence. When had incitement to race served a peaceful purpose? Race was a fuel and it needed only a match to light it. Any match - my hostility, your ambition, a third person's advantage.

  Nayantara Sahgal

  Ambition, Light, Peaceful

  Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”

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• The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they are developing a special sense of sympathy for all who suffer and fail of justice.

  Fannie Barrier Williams

  Heart, Compassion, Long

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• [Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.

  Liza Mundy

  Family, Leadership, Education

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• And here we are with our improved human world that we've spent a great deal of time and energy working on. We've improved the rivers and the lakes and the land and our society and our ways of living to the point where we now wonder if the human race will survive.

  Steve Hagen

  Lakes, Land, Rivers

  Steve Hagen (2011). “Buddhism Plain and Simple”, p.106, Tuttle Publishing

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• I believe that it is of the utmost importance that we all should feel and inculcate among the people and circulate amongst them what I call a sense of compatriotism. We should all feel that we are all nationals of one country, whatever our race, colour, creed, or sect.

  A. D. Patel

  Country, Believe, People

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• Without a deal [with Iran], the international sanctions regime will unravel with little ability to reimpose them. With this deal, we have the possibility of peacefully resolving a major threat to regional and international security. Without a deal, we risk even more war in the Middle East and other countries in the region would feel compelled to pursue their own nuclear programs, threatening a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region in the world.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Iran

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The alternative, no limits on Iran's nuclear program, no inspections, an Iran that's closer to a nuclear weapon, the risk of regional nuclear arms race, and the greater risk of war - all that would endanger our [American] security.

  Barack Obama

  War, Iran, Risk

  Press Conference by the President, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 15, 2015.

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• Music has no borders, no race or color, no limits of country, no ethnicity. Music makes the people come together. Dance it,Dance all.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Country, Ethnicity, Color

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• Conversations between parents and kids are important, about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage.

  Garcelle Beauvais

  Kids, Issues, Parent

  "Garcelle Beauvais Mixes It Up [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. August 8, 2013.

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• Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture is more significant than eye color, or the shape of one's feet. The second lie built on top of that is that there's a hierarchy that more significant difference, the color showing up as brown on your skin rather than brown in your hair, or whatever, is somehow more significant and there's some sort of hierarchy. That the lighter you are, the straighter your hair, the better you are.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Lying, Eye, Hair

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

  Thylias Moss

  African American, Looks, Layers

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• It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

  KRS-One

  Hypocrisy, Hip Hop, Acting

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.

  John Gabriel Stedman

  People, Climate, Earth

  John Gabriel Stedman (1806). “Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America”, p.380, Рипол Классик

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• We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races.

  Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

  Sex, Believe, Mean

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• The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know.

  Timothy Keller

  Book, Needs, Humans

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• Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.... National pride has no need of the delirium of race.

  Benito Mussolini

  Believe, Pride, Reality

  "Talks with Mussolini". Book by Emil Ludwig, 1932.

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• Howard Dean dropped out of the race today. At least he can't claim his voice wasn't heard.

  Jay Leno

  Voice, Today, Claims

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• Campaign analysts say that Dean has produced the most innovative web site in this year's presidential race. I particularly like today's blog, which consisted of the sentence 'I hate myself,' typed four billion times. In Dean's case, this may be the first instance where the actually entity represented by the web site has crashed more often than the site did.

  Dennis Miller

  Hate, Years, Presidential

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• Life isn't a race. It's a relay.

  Dick Gregory

  Relays

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