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Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse carrying a briefcase?
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We didn't evolve through billions of years to remain animals.
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It is possible to make buildings by stringing together patterns, in a rather loose way. A building made like this, is an assembly of patterns. It is not dense. It is not profound. But it is also possible to put patterns together in such a way that many patterns overlap in the same physical space: the building is very dense; it has many meanings captured in a small space; and through this density, it becomes profound.
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The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.
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I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.
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It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified.
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Climbing is about pioneering new routes, exploring new ground, facing the unknown. Those hooked on climbing the normal routes on the eight-thousanders will miss all theat. They are wasting the best years of their climbing lives.
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There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I dont even have to exaggerate.
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once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along it unswerving.
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Somehow it is the male's duty to put the best years of his life into work he doesn't like in order that he may "retire" and enjoy himself as soon as he is too old to do so. This is more than just the system - it is the credo. It is the same thing that prompted Thoreau to say, in 1839: 'The majority of men lead lives of quiet desperation.'
