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“Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'”
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“I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.”
Source : Archie Fairly Carr (1967). “So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles”
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“I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.”
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“On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.”
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“We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.”
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“One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.”
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“I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.”
Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “The End Of Alice”, p.149, Granta Books
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“Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.”
Source : "The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Edited by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 79, 1882.
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“Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.”
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“I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.”
