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Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city. ↗

— Walter Washington

#city #concern #ethnically #for the people #get

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#life #my life #self-conscious #trying

The suffering that started off challenging our being and our ideas of what life is and should be ends up opening our heart, expanding our identity, and connecting us forever to the human family and life. ↗

— John P Schuster

#workplace-wisdom #art

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#comes #dew #down #earth #flowers

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret. When you are old, you become impatient with the way in which the young applaud the most insignificant improvements … while remaining heedless of the world’s barbarism. I don’t say things have got worse; I merely say the young wouldn’t notice if they had. The old times were good because then we were young, and ignorant of how ignorant the young can be. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#past #age

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#greatest #greatest importance #importance #job #just

Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country. ↗

— William Windham

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Religious fasting is the best way to cure an anorexic's spirit: in heaven her condition will be normal. ↗

— Bauvard

#fasting #funny #humor #funny

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

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