“But what of black women?… I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.”
— W. E. B. Du Bois
Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
Category: women
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The first step toward success is taken
“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”
— Mark Caine
Author: Mark Caine
Category: motivational
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We know accurately only when we know
“We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Category: knowledge
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Science and literature give me answers. And
“Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.”
— Mark Haddon
Author: Mark Haddon
Category: science
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Money without brains is always dangerous.
“Money without brains is always dangerous.”
— Napoleon Hill
Author: Napoleon Hill
Category: money
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The most fundamental fact about the ideas
“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.”
— Thomas Sowell
Author: Thomas Sowell
Category: work
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Music expresses that which cannot be said
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
— Victor Hugo
Author: Victor Hugo
Category: music
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and
“We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.”
— Francis Bacon
Author: Francis Bacon
Category: men
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Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge
“Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.”
— Abu Bakr
Author: Abu Bakr
Category: knowledge
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As in geology, so in social institutions,
“As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: society
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Men are wary of me because they
“Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.”
— Ellie Goulding
Author: Ellie Goulding
Category: relationship
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