#con

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

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We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point. ↗

— George Stoneman

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I never thought I would be somewhat of a gay icon. ↗

— Eric Stonestreet

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#aim high #apart #art form #big #confines

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#events #friend #history #men #my friend

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

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