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  • Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap [between Afro-Americans and white] would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we've had before when you talk about something like reparations.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Mean Quotes , Past Quotes
  • It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes
  • With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Past Quotes , Feet Quotes
  • So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that ancient path, that ancient road? It is just this Noble Eightfold Path; that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Past Quotes , Views Quotes
  • I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by his errors, and derive Experience from his folly; For, when the power of imparting joy Is equal to the will, the human soul Requires no other heaven.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes
  • I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn't bad... I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing. But it's become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adrian Matejka Quotes , Mean Quotes , Past Quotes
  • What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Horse Quotes , Past Quotes