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• They have poisoned the Thames and killed the fish in the river. A little further development of the same wisdom and science will complete the poisoning of the air, and kill the dwellers on the banks. I almost think it is the destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Science, Destiny, Thinking

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• Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.

  Pete Wentz

  Motivational, Mean, Odds

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• As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color. What freedom alone can bring is the liberation of the human mind and a spirit which finds its greatest flowering in the free society. I see of little more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

  John F. Kennedy

  Music, Country, Art

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• Animals are so much quicker in picking up our thoughts than we are in picking up theirs. I believe they must have a very poor opinion of the human race.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Believe, Animal, Opinion

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• [On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athletic ability, celebrity of parents, and alumni connections. It is remarkable how little agitation there is against those practices.

  Barbara Bergmann

  Practice, Giving, Parent

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• Race ain't nothing but a number.

  Carson Cistulli

  Numbers

  "Selected Aphorisms #78". The New Enthusiast, thenewenthusiast.com. May 27, 2011.

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• For the long-limbed trees and watery landscape of Vancouver Island, read Hundreds and Thousands. Setting aside, who can resist a woman who lived in a caravan in Goldstream Park with a pack of dogs and a monkey and shunned the human race except to attend her own art openings? Only a genius could both paint and write my/her home.

  Marjorie Celona

  Dog, Art, Home

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• As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Long, Hungry, Humans

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• The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Moving, Light, Heaven

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• I like weather better than climate. The dry season is a gold vacuum; but the rainy season has change, which is weather. And while climate may create a race, weather creates the temper and sensibility of the individual.

  Gertrude Diamant

  Weather, Gold, Climate

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• Ultimately, of course, there is no excuse for being fat in this culture. It's the one last prejudice we allow ourselves, the final frontier of acceptable segregation. Our political correctness is positively Californian when it comes to race, creed, origin, and orientation. But we still condemn ourselves and others for this last intolerable offense in an annoyingly tolerant society.

  Joni Rodgers

  Political, Prejudice, Finals

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• Many think, because your skins are tinged with a sable hue, that you are an inferior race of beings; but God does not consider you as such. ... he hath made all men free and equal. Then why should one worm say to another, 'Keep you down there, while I sit up yonder; for I am better than thou?

  Maria W. Stewart

  God, Freedom, Equality

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• one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them.

  Peggy McIntosh

  White Privilege, Racism, Dominance

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• My opposition to war was not because of the horrors of war, not because war demands that the race offer up its very best in their full vigor, not because war means economic bankruptcy, domination of races by famine and disease, but because war is so completely ineffective, so stupid. It settles nothing.

  Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

  War, Stupid, Mean

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• Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Imagination, Understanding, Curiosity

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• It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine.

  Paul Gruchow

  Running, Rats, Quitting

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• Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

  Paul Di Filippo

  Dystopian Fiction, Literature, Facts

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• If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage of our social evolution, with mixing the casts. It may not be a question of race so much as class. You would rarely find a black man in a high executive position where he was swinging his weight around.

  Howard Schultz

  Men, White, Class

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• What disturbs or assures us about race has very little to do with blood or biology. Race is about how you use language, understand your heritage, interpret your history, identify with your kin, figure out what your meaning and worth to a society that places values on you beyond your control. And it's also about what people see you as - or take you to be.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Blood, People, Littles

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible in this area, is it also possible in the vexed and sordid realm of race relations?

  Barack Obama

  Sex, Thinking, Firsts

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• One of my correspondents has me convinced that the human race would be saved if the world became one huge nudist colony. I keep thinking how much harder it would be to carry concealed weapons.

  Cyra McFadden

  Thinking, Would Be, World

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• I just don't feel the whole white guilt and pussy-footing around race issues. I'm completely above all that. I've never worried about what anyone might think of me 'cause I've always believed that the true of heart recognize the true of heart.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Heart, Thinking, White

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

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• All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race because they can leap over barriers, religions, leap over barriers of race, politics.

  Pete Seeger

  Sports, Art, Believe

  Source: nysmusic.com

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• I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Kids, Media

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• All wishes create an upswing line when it is manifested. Therefore, together, it becomes an incredible upswing of power, whatever you wished. Of course, the more high level wishes, which covers the whole human race is stronger than wishing for getting ice cream for your dessert!

  Yoko Ono

  Ice Cream, Wish, Together

  Source: www.yashawallin.com

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