"But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is."

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James McBride

#Race Quotes #Differences Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so many scientists who believe in dowsing that the suspicion comes to me that it may only be a myth after all.”

Source : Charles Fort (1941). “The Complete Books of Charles Fort”, p.1048, Courier Corporation
“A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.”
“'Elections have consequences,' President Obama said, setting his new policy agenda just three days after taking office in 2009. Three elections later, the president's party has lost 70 House seats and 14 Senate seats. The job of Republicans now is to govern with the confidence that elections do have consequences, promptly passing the conservative reform the voters have demanded.”
“You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.”
“I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.”
“There are many levels of life which we cannot see and know, yet which certainly exist. There is a larger world, vast enough to include immortality.... Our spiritual natures belong to this larger world ... If death is apparently an outward fact, immortality is an inner certainty.”
“Without mathematics, thereâ€™s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.”
“Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.”

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