Patricia Stephens Due famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
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Stories live forever. Storytellers don't.
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Priscilla and I, and nine others, had been charged with 'disturbing the peace,' among other charges, because we tried to order food at Woolworth. If not for segregation, and the fact that we were all Negroes, we would have been served without incident. At our trial on March 17, 1960, Judge John Rudd ruled that our lawyers should 'get off that race question.'
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History happens one person at a time.
-- Patricia Stephens Due
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There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." "Depends on what?" "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it.
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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.
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There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.
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Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
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