"With education symmetrical and true we will take the dead mass buried by slavery's hand and touch them to life. This beauteous angel, which has always done its work for those on earth, will roll away the stone from the tomb where is buried a race, and my people will come forth to their glory and the amazement of the world."

-- William Tecumseh Vernon

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“This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.”
“Do what you think is right and apologize later.”

Source : "Michael Steele’s Thurgood Marshall Fail" by David Corn And Suzy Khimm, www.motherjones.com. June 29, 2010.
“That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.”
“On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.”
“You jump on a bike and start peddling. You fall down and you get up again. I've always been a 'learn by doing' kind of guy.”
“Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers awayâ€”an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.”
“I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.”

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33rd U.S. President