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About Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970), American singer-songwriter and actress.


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About François de La Rochefoucauld

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, le Prince de Marcillac (1613-09-15 – 1680-03-17 ) was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs, as well as an example of the accomplished 17th-century nobleman.

W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

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  • I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of the evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil. Is this the life you grudge us, O knightly America? Is this the life you long to change into the dull red hideousness of Georgia? Are you so afraid lest peering from this high Pisgah, between Philistine and Amalekite, we sight the Promised Land? - View Quote Details on I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the…
  • Why was his hair tinted with gold? An evil omen was golden hair in my life. Why had not the brown of his eyes crushed out and killed the blue? — for brown were his father’s eyes, and his father’s father’s. And thus in the Land of the Color-line I saw, as it fell across my baby, the shadow of the Veil. - View Quote Details on Why was his hair tinted with gold? An evil omen…
  • It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of the races the survival of the fittest shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we may be able to preserve for future civilization all that is really fine and noble and strong, and not continue to put a premium on greed and imprudence and cruelty. - View Quote Details on It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and…
  • The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world’s need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this — with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need — this life is hell. - View Quote Details on The return from your work must be the satisfaction which…
  • Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men. - View Quote Details on Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men…
  • The Soviet Union does not allow any church of any kind to interfere with education, and religion is not taught in public schools. It seems to me that this is the greatest gift of the Russian Revolution to the modern world. Most educated modern men no longer believe in religious dogma. If questioned they will usually resort to double-talk before admitting the fact. But who today actually believes that this world is ruled and directed by a benevolent person of great power who, on humble appeal, will change the course of events at our request? Who believes in miracles? Many folk follow religious ceremonies and services and allow their children to learn fairy tales and so-called religious truth, which in time the children come to recognize as conventional lies told by their parents and teachers for the children’s good. One can hardly exaggerate the moral disaster of the custom. We have to thank the Soviet Union for the courage to stop it. - View Quote Details on The Soviet Union does not allow any church of any…
  • The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination. - View Quote Details on The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning…
  • There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for. - View Quote Details on There is always a certain glamour about the idea of…
  • The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. - View Quote Details on The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of…
  • Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy and consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape. - View Quote Details on Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look…
  • Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency. - View Quote Details on Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared…
  • How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising, Detraction, and Lies? What shall Virtue do to meet Brute Force? There are so many answers and so contradictory; and such differences for those on the one hand who meet questions similar to this once a year or once a decade, and those who face them hourly and daily. - View Quote Details on How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in…
  • And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough oneness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature needs must make men narrow in order to give them force. - View Quote Details on And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough oneness…
  • Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. - View Quote Details on Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater,…
  • Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility. - View Quote Details on Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in…
  • After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, — a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness, — an American, a Negro; two warring souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, — this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. - View Quote Details on After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the…
  • The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - View Quote Details on The cost of liberty is less than the price of…
  • It was a bright September afternoon, and the streets of New York were brilliant with moving men…. He was pushed toward the ticket-office with the others, and felt in his pocket for the new five-dollar bill he had hoarded…. When at last he realized that he had paid five dollars to enter he knew not what, he stood stock-still amazed…. John… sat in a half-maze minding the scene about him; the delicate beauty of the hall, the faint perfume, the moving myriad of men, the rich clothing and low hum of talking seemed all a part of a world so different from his, so strangely more beautiful than anything he had known, that he sat in dreamland, and started when, after a hush, rose high and clear the music of Lohengrin’s swan. The infinite beauty of the wail lingered and swept through every muscle of his frame, and put it all a-tune. He closed his eyes and grasped the elbows of the chair, touching unwittingly the lady’s arm. And the lady drew away. A deep longing swelled in all his heart to rise with that clear music out of the dirt and dust of that low life that held him prisoned and befouled. If he could only live up in the free air where birds sang and setting suns had no touch of blood! Who had called him to be the slave and butt of all?… If he but had some master-work, some life-service, hard, aye, bitter hard, but without the cringing and sickening servility…. When at last a soft sorrow crept across the violins, there came to him the vision of a far-off home — the great eyes of his sister, and the dark drawn face of his mother…. It left John sitting so silent and rapt that he did not for some time notice the usher tapping him lightly on the shoulder and saying politely, ‘will you step this way please sir?’… The manager was sorry, very very sorry — but he explained that some mistake had been made in selling the gentleman a seat already disposed of; he would refund the money, of course… before he had finished John was gone, walking hurriedly across the square… and as he passed the park he buttoned his coat and said, ‘John Jones you’re a natural-born fool.’ Then he went to his lodgings and wrote a letter, and tore it up; he wrote another, and threw it in the fire…. - View Quote Details on It was a bright September afternoon, and the streets of…
  • I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false. - View Quote Details on I believe that there are human stocks with whom it…
  • I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men. - View Quote Details on I insist that the object of all true education is…
  • The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog. - View Quote Details on The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it…
  • The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame. - View Quote Details on The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork,…
  • Within the Veil was he born, said I; and there within shall he live, — a Negro and a Negro’s son. Holding in that little head — ah, bitterly! — the unbowed pride of a hunted race, clinging with that tiny dimpled hand — ah, wearily! — to a hope not hopeless but unhopeful, and seeing with those bright wondering eyes that peer into my soul a land whose freedom is to us a mockery and whose liberty is a lie. - View Quote Details on Within the Veil was he born, said I; and there…
  • The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience. - View Quote Details on The theory of democratic government is not that the will…
  • Present-day students are often puzzled at the apparent contradictions of Southern slavery. One hears, on the one hand, of the staid and gentle patriarchy, the wide and sleepy plantations with lord and retainers, ease and happiness; on the other hand one hears of barbarous cruelty and unbridled power and wide oppression of men. Which is the true picture? The answer is simple: both are true. They are not opposite sides of the same shield; they are different shields. - View Quote Details on Present-day students are often puzzled at the apparent contradictions of…
  • The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization. - View Quote Details on The function of the university is not simply to teach…
  • There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know. - View Quote Details on There is but one coward on earth, and that is…
  • In my own country for nearly a century I have been nothing but a nigger. - View Quote Details on In my own country for nearly a century I have…

About W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-02-23 – 1963-08-27 ) was an American civil rights activist, sociologist, educator, historian, author, editor, and scholar.

Scream Quotes

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About Scream

Scream is a 1996 film about group of teens being stalked by a psychopathic killer. The film revitalized the slasher film genre by using a tongue-in-cheek approach that successfully combined straightforward scares with dialog that satirized slasher film conventions. Directed by Wes Craven. Written by Kevin Williamson. Don’t Answer The Phone. Don’t Open The Door. Don’t Try To Escape. (taglines ) .

Scream Taglines

  • Someone has taken their love of scary movies one step too far. Solving this mystery is going to be murder.
  • From The First Name In Suspense Comes The Last Word In Fear
  • Don’t Answer The Phone. Don’t Open The Door. Don’t Try To Escape.

Scream Cast

  • Drew Barrymore - Casey Becker
  • David Arquette - Deputy Dwight ‘Dewey’ Riley
  • Liev Schreiber - Cotton Weary
  • Neve Campbell - Sidney Prescott
  • Rose McGowan - Tatum Riley
  • Jamie Kennedy - Randy Meeks
  • Skeet Ulrich - Billy Loomis
  • Courteney Cox - Gale Weathers
  • Matthew Lillard - Stuart Macher

Power Quotes

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About Power

Quotes regarding power.

The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats Quotes

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  • I thought of the perpetual desire of all lovers to talk of their love and how many lovers’ quarrels have come from it. - View Quote Details on I thought of the perpetual desire of all lovers to…
  • Politics, for a vision-seeking man, can be but half achievement, a choice of an almost easy kind of skill instead of that kind which is, of all those not impossible, the most difficult. Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? - View Quote Details on Politics, for a vision-seeking man, can be but half achievement,…
  • Because the life man sees is not the final end of things, the moment we attain to greatness of any kind by personal labour and will we become fragmentary, and find no task in active life which can use our finest faculties. - View Quote Details on Because the life man sees is not the final end…
  • When a country produces a man of genius he is never what it wants or believes it wants; he is always unlike its idea of itself. In the eighteenth century Scotland believed itself religious, moral and gloomy, and its national poet Burns came not to speak of these things but to speak of lust and drink and drunken gaiety. - View Quote Details on When a country produces a man of genius he is…
  • A lofty morality should be tolerant, for none declare its laws but those worn out with its warfare, and they must pity sinners. - View Quote Details on A lofty morality should be tolerant, for none declare its…
  • I began to pray that my imagination might somehow be rescued from abstraction and become as preoccupied with life as had been the imagination of Chaucer. For ten or twelve years more I suffered continual remorse, and only became content when my abstractions had composed themselves into picture and dramatisation. My very remorse helped to spoil my early poetry, giving it an element of sentimentality through my refusal to permit it any share of an intellect which I considered impure. Even in practical life I only very gradually began to use generalisations, that have since become the foundation of all I have done, or shall do, in Ireland. For all I know all men may have been so timid, for I am persuaded that our intellects at twenty contain all the truths we shall ever find, but as yet we do not know truths that belong to us from opinions caught up in casual irritation or momentary fantasy. As life goes on we discover that certain thoughts sustain us in defeat, or give us victory, whether over ourselves or others, and it is these thoughts, tested by passion, that we call convictions. - View Quote Details on I began to pray that my imagination might somehow be…
  • Why should men, who spoke their opinions in low voices, as though they feared to disturb the readers in some ancient library, and timidly as though they knew that all subjects had long since been explored, all questions long since decided in books whereon the dust settled — live lives of such disorder and seek to rediscover in verse the syntax of impulsive common life? Was it that we lived in what is called “an age of transition” and so lacked coherence, or did we but pursue antithesis? - View Quote Details on Why should men, who spoke their opinions in low voices,…
  • We saw each other in the light of bitter comedy, and in the arts, where now one technical element reigned and then another, generation hated generation, and accomplished beauty was snatched away when it had most engaged our affections. - View Quote Details on We saw each other in the light of bitter comedy,…
  • I had as many ideas as I have now, only I did not know how to choose from among them those that belonged to my life. - View Quote Details on I had as many ideas as I have now, only…
  • I think that the movement of our thought has more and more so separated certain images and regions of the mind, and that these images grow in beauty as they grow in sterility. - View Quote Details on I think that the movement of our thought has more…
  • The real life being despised is only prized when sentimentalised over, and so the soul is shut off alike from earth and heaven. - View Quote Details on The real life being despised is only prized when sentimentalised…
  • As I look backward upon my own writing, I take pleasure alone in those verses where it seems to me I have found something hard and cold, some articulation of the Image, which is the opposite of all that I am in my daily life, and all that my country is; yet man or nation can no more make this Mask or Image than the seed can be made by the soil into which it is cast. - View Quote Details on As I look backward upon my own writing, I take…
  • Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues. I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. - View Quote Details on Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its…
  • The pride and reserve, the sense of decorum and order, the instinctive playing before themselves that belongs to those who strike the popular imagination. - View Quote Details on The pride and reserve, the sense of decorum and order,…
  • I have noticed that when these men (certain disciples of A. E. ) take to any kind of action it is to some kind of extreme politics. Partly, I think, because they have never learned the discipline which enables the most ardent nature to accept obtainable things, even if a little sadly; but still more because they cannot believe in any success that is not in the unconditioned future, and because, like an artist described by Balzac, they long for popularity that they may believe in themselves. - View Quote Details on I have noticed that when these men (certain disciples of…
  • Does not all art come when a nature, that never ceases to judge itself, exhausts personal emotion so completely that something impersonal, something that has nothing to do with action or desire, suddenly starts into its place, something which is as unforeseen, as completely organised, even as unique, as the images that pass before the mind between sleeping and waking? - View Quote Details on Does not all art come when a nature, that never…
  • The old playwrights took old subjects, did not even arrange the subject in a new way. They were absorbed in expression, that is to say in what is most near and delicate. The new playwrights invent their subjects and dislike anything customary in the arrangement of the fable, but their expression is as common as the newspapers where they first learned to write. - View Quote Details on The old playwrights took old subjects, did not even arrange…
  • Is not charm what it is because an escape from mechanism? So much of the world as is dominated by the contest of interests is a mechanism. The newspaper is the roar of the machine. Argument, the moment acknowledged victory is sought, becomes a clash of interests. - View Quote Details on Is not charm what it is because an escape from…

About The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats

W. B. Yeats’ collected memoirs were published in 1935 as The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats and consisted of the following works: Reveries over Childhood and Youth (1914); The Trembling of the Veil (1922); Yeats’ Nobel Prize lecture, “The Irish Dramatic Movement” (1923-12-15 ); The Bounty of Sweden (1925); Estrangement (1926); The Death of Synge (1928); and Dramatis Personae, 1896-1902 (1935). The edition providing the following quotations is from the Macmillan Publishing Company, 1986, ISBN 0-02-055580-6 ; it is a reprint of a 1965 edition. .

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Quotes

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About Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (12 May, 1828 - 10 April, 1882 ) was an English poet, painter and translator.

Thomas Browne Quotes

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About Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne, MD (19 October 1605 – 19 October 1682 ) was an English author of varied works that disclose his wide learning in diverse fields including medicine, religion, science and the esoteric.


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About John Selden

John Selden (December 16, 1584 - November 30, 1654 ) was an English jurist, legal antiquary and oriental scholar.





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