The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.
~ Toni Morrison
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The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.
~ Toni Morrison
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
~ Walter Bagehot
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One of the chief duties of a mathematician in acting as an advisor to scientists is to discourage them from expecting too much of mathematicians.
~ Norbert Wiener
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Good design must be useful.
~ Dieter Rams
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If I have said nothing new tonight, it may well be because, in a family of nations as in families of individuals we should expect nothing more sensational than growth.
~ Dean Acheson
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
~ William Butler Yeats
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Many of the dangerous things that drivers do are not likely to save them even 10 seconds. When you bet your life against 10 seconds, that is giving bigger odds than you are ever likely to get in Las Vegas.
~ Thomas Sowell
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Make no mistake, there’s formula detective fiction, there’s formula science fiction – but there’s formula literary fiction too.
~ Marlon James
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Some people you shouldn’t kid, even if they deserve it.
~ J.D. Salinger
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