Orlando Patterson famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And thinking about phasing it into a class-based entitlement program may at long last bring Americans around to a consideration of the growing inequality that threatens the harmony of our democracy far more than the alarmist cry of 'racial division.'
-- Orlando Patterson
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
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Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
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Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
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There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
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I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.
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Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!†said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.
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Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'
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