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School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American. W. E. B. Du Bois

Life, Soul, School, Black, Men, Long

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad. Josephine Baker

Coffee, Walk, Me, America, Hotel, Kings

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty. Narendra Modi

Work, Family, Mother, Tea, Childhood

Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries. Amitava Kumar

History, Culture, Village, Cinema, Books

If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or to the ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin - but it is not of Edward of England that I shall ask pardon. William Wallace

Religion, Me, Done, Sin, Soldiers, Ask

I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things. Keeley Hawes

People, Dirty, Cleanliness, High, Dirt

People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go. Salman Khan

Money, Day, Value, People, Small, Me

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. Benjamin Franklin

People, Blind, Eye, Clothes, Furniture

Our Congress passes laws which subsidize corporation farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia. But when they turn their attention to the poor, they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on the funds for Head Start, Medicare, and mental health appropriations. Coretta Scott King

Health, Start, Attention, Mental Health

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator. Gene Tierney

Interior, Been, Should, Passions

Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency. Johnny Isakson

Life, Work, Experience, Training, People

On Halloween, don't you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don't eat any candy until she checks it? I used to be so tempted to eat my candy on the way to other people's houses. That used to be such a tease. Derrick Rose

Mom, People, You, Eat, Know, Candy

Architects design houses. I live in a home. Peter Eisenman

Home, Live, Design, Architects

Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area. Thomas Gibson

History, Great, Rain, Architecture, City

I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept. Peter Eisenman

Family, Believe, Design, Because, Idea

When I look back at my journey, it gives me a sense of confidence. I have been through an odd journey from Delhi to Mumbai, struggling, not having a job, shifting houses... Today, I am giving interviews. So it does give me gratitude and confidence. The fear is gone. Sidharth Malhotra

Confidence, Fear, Journey, Today, Job

A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it. Christian Louboutin

Heart, Character, People, Curves, House

It is not, of course, complete yet - but some sentences were understood this afternoon... I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem - and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas - and friends converse with each other without leaving home. Alexander Graham Bell

Home, Great, Water, Day, Feel, Problem

And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it. Jan Brewer

You, Down, Immigration, Know, Automobile

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion. Hermann Hesse

Morning, Sky, Blue, Joy, Window, Long

Milan, for me, is a city of discovery. You can find some amazing gardens behind some great houses; I also love finding beautiful galleries and incredible shops, but you have to explore. And the food is amazing. Francisco Costa

Love, Beautiful, Great, Food, City, Me

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks. Heather Brooke

Coffee, Internet, Printing, Social, Our

If we have authentic, honest, earthy materials in our houses, we'll be more authentic, honest and natural. Alexandra Stoddard

More, Honest, Natural, Materials, Our

Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That we own and know that we are more than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred, beautiful, rhythmic houses for us. Tracee Ellis Ross

Nature, Beautiful, Remember, True, Wish

Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. Herodotus

God, Rest, Trees, You, See, Greatest

The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it well, however, by cultivation in our gardens and green houses; besides, we are disposed to remember it for the sake of those who have sung its praises in immortal verse. Dorothea Dix

Green, Remember, Know, Soil, Daisy, Well

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