#race

Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it. ↗

— Mitt Romney

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Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear. ↗

— Mitt Romney

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Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I. ↗

— Art Rooney

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Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in. ↗

— Ian Thorpe

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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

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If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet. ↗

— Charles Mengel Allen

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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#grace #learn #resign #you