"We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time."

-- David Dinkins

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“If you can expect the unexpected, you can emotionally lick anyone.”
“When I was a boy, I thought scent was contained in dewdrops on flowers and if I got up very early in the morning, I could collect it and make perfume.”
“It was definitely a big change in my life going from the college scene to really kind of being on my own. I got married and moved to Houston and started a whole new journey. It was scary in a way, but what's great for me is just focusing on gymnastics and my wife. I'm really able to put 100% into what my goals are.”

Source : Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com. July 31, 2012.
“Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge, people will follow”

Source : "A Skeptical Outsider Becomes Bush's 'Wartime General'". www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2008.
“A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.”
“They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low”

Source : Song: Sleep Alone, Album: Two Suns, 2009
“Until White America can look through the eyes of a Black man, nothing will change. Even we as Black people sometimes don't want to face what's going on within our communities because some of us crossed over into a different tax bracket, but these issues affect the communities that raised us, so it affects us all.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic.”

Source : "10 Things You Don't Know About Women: Liz Vassey". www.esquire.com. October 31, 2006.

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