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“Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.”

Humans Reason Age Sex Community Race Moral Racism Species Deny Protection Rejects Sexism Orientation Membership Sentient Beings Ageism Speciesism

Author:Gary L. Francione

“Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.”

Race Librarian Tedious

Author:Peter Shaffer

“We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God.”

Together Culture Strong Nations Race One Nation Under God Stand Strong Strong Together

Author:Bob Taft

“We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.”

Different Country Lasts Three Race Land Chosen Settling Neglect Mexico Fertile Different Races

Book:Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

Source: Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

“I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I get older, I've switched to a mode best described as 'slow and steady wins the race.' Basically, I write during the same four hours every day, after breakfast and the all-important coffee, generally in the same room and wearing the same pajamas.”

Writing Important Used Winning Hours Rooms Race Four Coffee Used To Be Breakfast Steady Days Off Pajamas Slow And Steady

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?”

Knows Want Looks States Kids Race Class Standards Raises Education For All

Author:Arabella Weir

“The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.”

Ifs Knows I Can Two Enough Able Turns Next Race Know How Middle Pure Starting Entertainment Honestly Get Up Packs Championship Will Power Grids Latches

Author:Dan Wheldon

“I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.”

People Play Character Desire Interesting Views Race Issues Right Now Theater Filled Very Interesting Personal Views

Author:Kerry Washington

“When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.”

“When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.”

Heart Seems Motivation Speak Forget Race Color Gender Sincere Right Place

Author:Adam Yauch

“Some people think that, inevitably, every robot that does any task is a bad thing for the human race, because it could be taking a job away. But that isn't necessarily true. You can also think of the robot as making a person more productive and enabling people to do things that are currently economically infeasible. But a person plus a robot or a fleet of robots could do things that would be really useful.”

People Thinking Humans Persons Doe Would Be Jobs Race Tasks Human Race Productive Plus Bad Things Robots Enabling True You

Author:Stuart J. Russell

“You know a Senate race is obviously a much smaller deal than a presidential race. What I think makes a very hard job considerably easier when you're going to debate is if you have reminded yourself - or somebody has reminded you during the course of your campaign - that consistency is enormously important. That people don't want to hear you say one thing in one part of the state and another thing in another part of the state.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Important Hard States Jobs Courses Deals Race One Thing Easier Campaigns Debate Presidential Senate Consistency

Author:Michael Bennet

“We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge.”

Ifs Inspirational Certain Given Challenges Sleep Race Alive Buddhism Periods Wake Up Lifetime Competing Going To Sleep

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another - It's the same old story over and over again.”

Inspirational Trying Stories Nations Race Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't follow the crowd. The crowd doesn't get there. They just run round and around in a crazy race. It never ends.”

Inspirational Ends Running Race Crazy Buddhism Rounds Crowds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.”

Inspiration Motivation Sports Race Successful Team Events Innovation Solo Runners Breakthrough Sports Team Sprint Relays Relay Races

Author:Nguyen Quyen

“History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.”

Race Painter Flags History Of Science Relays Copernicus Relay Races

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.”

Thinking Knows Needs Today Race Cities New York Tough New York City Invited Marathon Think Twice

Author:Martin Lel

“I think the race situation is getting better as far as people respecting each other goes. I think the race situation with entertainment is not that much better.”

People Thinking Race Situation Entertainment Get Better

Author:Patti LaBelle

“I have dated all races and I believe you should be free to do whatever you want.”

Want Should Believe I Believe Race Do Whatever You Want

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.”

Race Environment Needed Originals Adaptation

Author:Walter Lang

“Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.”

Humans Race Majors Survival Impact Medicine Human Race Nanotechnology

Author:Bernard Marcus

“The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.”

Humans Race Possibility Human Race Extinction

Author:Vernor Vinge

“Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.”

People Thinking Humans Kind Problem Dream Courses Heaven Race Doubt Sky Dying Awful Human Race No Doubt Afterlife Pie

Author:N. T. Wright

“Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.”

Believe Life Is Suffering I Believe Grows Race Higher I Believe In Resistance Mature Higher Power

Author:Rainn Wilson

“The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's.”

Humans Bigs Race Mistake Human Race Admirable Big Mistake

Author:Taylor Caldwell

“Although eugenics flourished in Nazi Germany, the ideal of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race wasn’t Adolf Hitler’s. It may surprise many to know that, in Mein Kampf, Hitler credited America with helping formulate his ideas on eugenics, and he admitted he’d studied the laws of US states to familiarize himself with selective reproduction and other eugenics issues.”

Knows May Ideas States Helping America Law Race Issues Masters Ideals Blue Surprise Germany Nazi Reproduction Eugenics Selective Nazi Germany Mein Kampf Blue Eyed

Author:James Morcan

“Priscilla and I, and nine others, had been charged with 'disturbing the peace,' among other charges, because we tried to order food at Woolworth. If not for segregation, and the fact that we were all Negroes, we would have been served without incident. At our trial on March 17, 1960, Judge John Rudd ruled that our lawyers should 'get off that race question.'”

Ifs Should Has Beens Facts Order Race Judging Lawyer Nine Trials March Segregation Disturbing 1960s Incidents

Book:Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights

Source: Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights

“Every time I run, it's with the mindset that if I die at this race it's OK.”

Ifs Running Dies Race Mindset

Author:Yuki

“I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.”

Writing Trying Years I Can Two Stories Race Direct Two Years Take Me

Author:Steven Spielberg

“The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines of reason and religion; and a step to the right or left might place him within the grasp of the priests of the superstition, a bloodthirsty race, as cruel and remorseless as the being whom they represented as the family God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, and the local God of Israel. That Jesus did not mean to impose himself on mankind as the son of God, physically speaking, I have been convinced by the writings of men more learned than myself in that lore.”

“Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending upon my ancestry and my colour to do that for me which I should do for myself. Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort”

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“Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.”

World Humans May Different Race Situation Revolution Train Human Race Emergencies World History Brake Grabbing Locomotives

Author:Walter Benjamin

“No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist. If that principle was not learned from the internment of Japanese Americans, then these are very dangerous times for our democracy.”

Ifs Should Religion Race Principles Democracy Share Dangerous Terrorist Locked Spy Ethnicity Mass Incarceration Internment Race Ethnicity

Author:Fred Korematsu

“As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without trial or hearing. I would like to see the government admit they were wrong and do something about it, so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color.”

Long Government Happens Race Records Color Citizens Court Prison Hearing Trials Concentration Camps Creeds American Citizens Concentration Camp

Author:Fred Korematsu

“I remember my father's last race very clearly when he drove at Hockenheim in front of 100,000 people and I was sitting next to him on the roof of his car and waving to the fans. That was the moment when I thought: 'One day I want to do the same.'”

People Want Moments Lasts Remember Next Father Race Fans Car Fronts One Day Sitting Roof

Author:Nico

“On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that in a fit of jealous rage, the very first child born to mortal parents, Cain, snapped and popped the first metaphorical cap in another human being. The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain's brother Abel probably never saw it coming. As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathic sympathy and intuitive understanding. For freaking Cain.”

Source: Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files

“At this point in my career I feel that the Tour takes priority. There may come a time at some point down the line where other races may take preference, but for 2015, it's the Tour.”

Feels May Lines Race Careers Priorities Preference

Author:Chris Froome

“I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and improve my sentence structure. If I can make a living doing that stuff, that's great, and I will keep doing it, and they can do whatever they want with my image. I couldn't care less.”

“The Lord gave us power in proportion to the work to be done, and strength according to the race set before us, and grace and help as our needs required.”

Needs Done Helping Race Lord Grace Proportion Work To Be Done

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“Pacifism means letting the non-pacifists have control ... Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact. If the white races are resolved never to wage war again, the colored will act differently and become rulers of the world.”

Ifs World Mean War Facts White Race Ideals Rulers Pacifist Pacifism White Race

Author:Oswald Spengler

“The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.”

Real Life Is Individual Race Existence Real Life Collectives Abstraction Individual Life

Book:A General View of Positivism

Source: A General View of Positivism

“My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.”

Real Lasts Race Olympics Sydney

Author:Cathy Freeman

“I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.”

Ifs World Mind Soul Reason Heaven Felt Space Race Brain Silence Knowing Heard Strange Ears Down And Boxes Finished My Soul Broke Lifts Funeral Boots Bells Solitary Numb Plunge Tolls Treading

Author:Andrew Solomon

“The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective.”

“We just have to keep our heads down and keep doing everything that we've been doing. This isn't a bunch of guys that are just going to go out and brag We're going to race every week like we have never won a race before. That's the kind of determination that you need when you are going to do this stuff.”

Needs Kind Guy Stuff Race Week Determination Down And Bunch Brag

Author:Kevin Harvick

“I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family.”

Race Car Goes On My Family Drivers Racing Vacation Race Car Racers Race Car Driver

Author:Tony Stewart

“Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.”

Matter Race Car Shapes No Matter What Size Complicated Race Car

Author:Tony Stewart

“It's been a long time since I've won a race in anything.”

Long Race Long Time

Author:Matt Kenseth

“We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.”

Knows World Humans Said Care Spiritual Jesus Race This World Anxiety Constant Casts Being True Human Race Spiritual Life Chained

Author:John Ortberg