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Quotes
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Willard Wigan
"When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history."
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Willard Wigan
#Black Quotes
#President Quotes
#Firsts Quotes
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“No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.”
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“My wife went to a beauty parlor and got a mudpack; for two days she looked nice, then the mud fell off.”
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“I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!”
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“What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?”
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“It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. . . . You will not be able to set up in a pagan or an heretical or a wholly indifferent society the institutions characteristic of economic freedom; you will not be able to curb competition which alone would be sufficient to destroy such freedom, nor pursue permanently and consecutively anyone part of the program. The thing must be done as a whole, and it can be done as a whole only by the ambient influence of Catholicism.”
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“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
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“It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.”
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“Even if you're popular, there are times when you just feel like you're not a part of things.”
