#ended

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #december #demonstrations

In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods. ↗

— David Ricardo

#both #commodity #comparative #comparing #consideration

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it. ↗

— Cardinal Richelieu

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The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#catch #down #english #had #hit

I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#had #hopes #i #intended #masses

As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#any #biological #detail #discover #found

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#fairy #her #invention #lots #many

We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#been #black #canadian #descended #engage

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds. ↗

— Titus Livius

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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood. ↗

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

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