Arthur Ashe Quotes

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Athlete | July 10, 1943 - February 6, 1993
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But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Jane Austen
I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.
Jane Austen
The Third World deserves freedom of speech just like everyone else. We want to fight the battle to say what we want, whether to be serious or just make fun of ourselves. That's what "Worldtown" is about, that's what "Paper Planes" is about. It's what people in the third world live through.
M.I.A.
From the time they turned one they were tossed from the balconies of the kitchens, first with life preserves so they would lose their fear of the water, and then without life preservers so they would lose their respect for death.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Simone de Beauvoir
What is a homeland? It is a place that enables people to blossom, and not a place in which people serve the flag. In my poem, Cease-fire with the Mongolians, I say that I am going to make socks out of the flag. My life's work is not on behalf of a flag.
Mahmoud Darwish
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I hope you will find another one who is both beautiful and good to take my place and serve our parents and bring up my children, and then I shall die content.
Shen Fu
Narayana Murthy is a role model for millions of Indians. An iconic figure in the country, he is widely respected and looked up not only for his business leadership but also for his ethics and personal conduct. He represents the face of the new, resurgent India to the world.
Narayana Murthy
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The truest direction comes from inside.
Cynthia Cooper-Dyke
Head’s contention is that socially ascribed identities arefalse, misleading and degrading to the true inner person
Bessie Head
Watch the costs and the profits take care of themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
From your place of darkness observe the defects of others. See but do not appear to see; listen but do not seem to listen; know but do not let it be known that you know. When you perceive the trend of a man's words, do not change them, do not correct them, but examine them and compare them with the results.
Han Fei
He loved me true did Harry-boy and I loved him true, and if the happiness we gave each other was wicked and wrong in the eyes of the Law and the Church and God Almighty, then the Law and the Church and God Almighty can go dig a hole and fall down it.
Noël Coward
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I am human, i am a human being, a soul, and not a piece of garbage, no matter how poor and ragged I look, and I deserve respect, he heard himself say, time and again as he descended to and repossessed his body.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Only culture is a guarantee of true peace.
Mahmoud Darwish
I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.
Jane Austen