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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
We clearly have to reduce harmful energy emissions. Everyone acknowledges we simply can't switch off fossil fuels overnight.
Playing only when you have a strong hand, also known as being a slave to the cards, is simply not the way to win tournaments.
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.
I have chosen to kneel because I simply cannot stand for the kind of oppression this country is allowing against its own people.
Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.
This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.
A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.
With many comic strips, knowing when to quit isn't a problem: The syndicate editors simply cancel a feature that is losing papers.
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,' but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.
When consumers purchase a Toyota, they are not simply purchasing a car, truck or van. They are placing their trust in our company.
Donald Trump has not yet earned my vote. And I'm not simply going to say 'never,' because I do not want to empower Hillary Clinton.
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
I loathe and detest people who pretend they don't care what people think about them as if that is a virtue, when it is simply rude.
What we perceive as a failure may simply be our inner being's way of telling us that we are ready to move to a new level of growth.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.
Sometimes you cannot produce a specific sound you want with, say, a guitar or piano, and you simply need to use electronic elements.
Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
As I get older, the idea of wasting time is becoming more and more abhorrent to me and I can't stand the idea of simply lying in bed.
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.
It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.
Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.
Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.
There is no news media. There's simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.
GDP simply measures the circulation of money in the economy, not whether or not the outcome of using that money is positive or negative.
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
A board of directors that cannot produce reliable audited financial statements for almost seven years simply should not remain in office.
We can't simply blame the engineers when things go wrong because, no matter how well they plan, things don't always go according to plan.
I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be.
We try to keep audiences coming back in greater numbers by doing the unexpected and not simply following a pattern or a mold or a formula.
On first acquaintance, the mystery of the Mayans of Guatemala can seem simply bizarre, as it was when I first encountered Maximon the god.
Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
Best way to measure your passion is simply asking would you do it for free? If money is your motivation, then it's not really your passion.
We have to improve our ability to deliver tangible results, namely sales, not simply awareness or change of attitude among opinion formers.