#darkest

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. ↗

— Ray Charles

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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#brightest #calamity #confusion #darkest #furnace

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#ashamed #cold #cold war #contemporary #contemporary history

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#evils #good #our #our world #surely

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#brightest #darkest #days #do not judge #find

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black. ↗

— Paul Newman

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Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know? ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#because #cry #darkest #deepest #go

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#darkest #dawn #poetry #politics #sometimes

I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#corners #darkest #greatest #greatest weapon #i

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#history #human #human history #page #prolonged