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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -W. B. Yeats.
W. B. YEATS A DEEP-SWORN VOW Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine. Yet...
W B YEATS

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom m...
DAK PRESCOTT My dad was a diehard Cowboys fan. I was raised as a Cowboy fan, and I was forced to be a Cowboy fan.
DAK PRESCOTT I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week o...
DAK PRESCOTT If there's one perk, it's being the quarterback of America's team and being able to make...
DAK PRESCOTT I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wan...
DAK PRESCOTT Back when I was a senior in high school in Haughton, LA, I had a chance to go to LSU. Everyone I gre...
DAK PRESCOTT I don't really put too much pressure on myself. The only time people feel pressure is when they ...
DAK PRESCOTT If we're doing a class project, then I'm going to be the one talking and taking the lead. I ...
DAK PRESCOTT I will never have a sip of alcohol and get behind the wheel again. Regardless if I'm 300% sure t...
DAK PRESCOTT I don't think people know how much time and effort truly goes into the game and goes into simply...
DAK PRESCOTT There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of co...
DAK PRESCOTT On the field, I went from an anonymous redshirt to a short-yardage specialist to a Heisman Trophy ca...
DAK PRESCOTT If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ult...
DAK PRESCOTT I grew up in Haughton, Louisiana. I go to my white grandparents' house, and then I cross the rai...
DAK PRESCOTT The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doin...
DAK PRESCOTT I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back ri...
DAK PRESCOTT A few weeks after my mom passed in November of 2013, I came back from an injury and entered the Egg ...
DAK PRESCOTT I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team...
DAK PRESCOTT I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the...
DAK PRESCOTT I've been through a lot off the field. I think that kind of translates onto the field. Football ...
DAK PRESCOTT Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin ...
DAK PRESCOTT I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
DAK PRESCOTT I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
DAK PRESCOTT I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I could...
DAK PRESCOTT If you're a competitor, you want to win. That's enough to play for, simple as that.
DAK PRESCOTT

There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes&#...
JOHN PRESCOTT It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win ...
PRESCOTT BUSH

I'm going to introduce you to a revolutionary thought - you can go slower and get there quicker....
JOHN PRESCOTT

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are...
JOHN PRESCOTT

That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer.
JOHN PRESCOTT My parents were always pretty free with me. They were of the school of thought that if you really cr...
KATHRYN PRESCOTT These people living on the streets could have been friends you once knew. They are people who have s...
KATHRYN PRESCOTT The most difficult thing I've ever done was to tell the players. I wanted to make sure that they hea...
BOB PRESCOTT I am very grateful for the opportunities that being in high school administration gave me. But the n...
BOB PRESCOTT The water table is so low. The smaller ones are drying up as the plants come to life and start to dr...
BOB PRESCOTT In most places it's very uncommon but on the Cape, in Plymouth County and up around Kingston it can ...
BOB PRESCOTT When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. ...
DAK PRESCOTT

I see this fella built like a barn door... and there's all these fox hunters, who didn't lik...
JOHN PRESCOTT I know people who have been without a home for ages, and lots of my friends are sofa surfing because...
KATHRYN PRESCOTT What we're looking for are the criteria a facility has to adhere to pass an audit.
MATT PRESCOTT It was a good time, ... I like just flirting around.
DAVID PRESCOTT He [Clark] threw the throttle way back. That is one fast plane.
DAVID PRESCOTT

It is totally unacceptable that Britain could be held to ransom in this kind of blockade raising out...
JOHN PRESCOTT

I love coming to Tories' seats and roughing them up... that is what elections are about.
JOHN PRESCOTT When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.
KATHRYN PRESCOTT If I want a man I'll go to a cheap bar, like any other sane woman. I, for one, haven't hit rock bott...
ELEANOR PRESCOTT The added factors of shooting animals with a camera, rather than a gun, are compassion and respect f...
HEIDI PRESCOTT It is good for him to get out and reminisce, ... The stimulation is wonderful.
DAVID PRESCOTT The name of Peru was not known to the natives.
WILLIAM PRESCOTT

Macho? Moi?
JOHN PRESCOTT

By entering the entry negotiations, Turkey also enters into obligations in regard to recognizing all...
JOHN PRESCOTT

You go down some street - no doubt it's there, and we have to do something about it, and our pro...
JOHN PRESCOTT

If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration...
JOHN PRESCOTT The behavior of the students impressed the administration. They stayed in their seats and kept the a...
PRESCOTT WHITE

It does sound not a very sensitive way to deal with such a difficult matter.
JOHN PRESCOTT I don't have a type looks-wise, but all my exes have been funny, open-minded and ambitious. I ca...
KATHRYN PRESCOTT

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million ...
JOHN PRESCOTT

I'm kind of on the fence. On one hand it's easy to take it and be done with it. But on the other han...
JOHN PRESCOTT If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.
WILLIAM PRESCOTT

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've...
JOHN PRESCOTT The zoning board and the Planning Board should honor the Master Plan and what the site was intended ...
DAVID PRESCOTT It's tough because we've been out of school and can't practice, but I'd hate not to play this week, ...
DAVID PRESCOTT We're supposed to play Covington and we know that area was hit pretty hard,
DAVID PRESCOTT I've hung around airplanes all my life, ... I don't need to see another plane take off.
DAVID PRESCOTT It makes sense to me. I forget my wallet more than I forget my cell phone.
GREGORY PRESCOTT The program acts as a middleman, giving retailers the information they need without names, addresses...
GREGORY PRESCOTT We call it ?Laser-like marketing.? It not only encourages impulse buying for businesses, it gives co...
GREGORY PRESCOTT We provide several support services. We have boutiques with wigs and hats for people going through t...
GAY PRESCOTT All the money raised goes directly to the services of the cancer support homes. We operate this even...
GAY PRESCOTT We had several survivors out there playing. It's great to see them getting on with their lives and g...
GAY PRESCOTT We ask for their immediate release. As an independent humanitarian organization we expect that all p...
GEOFF PRESCOTT It changes each quarter, it fluctuates pretty widely.
JEFF PRESCOTT Bringing a suit like that as a class-action is obviously designed to be sensational, get media atten...
JEFF PRESCOTT We will defend ourselves vigorously against the allegations.
JEFF PRESCOTT Bringing a lawsuit as a class action like that is simply designed to be sensational and get media at...
JEFF PRESCOTT We are trying to contain the environmental damage.
JEFF PRESCOTT We're the largest investor-owned health-care company in the country. We feel like it's incumbent on ...
JEFF PRESCOTT He never had any relationship to the company to begin with. ... He never even practiced here. We spe...
JEFF PRESCOTT We're committed to the hospital as an entity. The question is when, where and how will it be reconst...
JEFF PRESCOTT Although the community as a whole is making great strides in trying to understand more about what po...
JAMES PRESCOTT He seemed to be doing OK with his life.
JAMES PRESCOTT He's a good kid and he's had his share of issues over the years.
JAMES PRESCOTT You both make each other want to be better people, and that’s a feckin’ rare thing. Far too many...
R.J. PRESCOTT How could you not? I do have a sense of humor.
HEIDI PRESCOTT It's the ultimate in hunter cruelty.
HEIDI PRESCOTT We want to nip it in the bud. The inaccuracy of someone hunting through a computer would lead to ani...
HEIDI PRESCOTT We don't believe in hunting, but canned hunting is more egregious than hunting in the wild.
HEIDI PRESCOTT We have major concerns about stocking animals for hunting. This practice should be banned.
HEIDI PRESCOTT What we find so objectionable is that these public-service agencies are involving themselves in recr...
HEIDI PRESCOTT We're seeing a lot of things that indicate to us an erosion of the public interest. It's an increase...
HEIDI PRESCOTT The freshmen have contributed so much to this program and next year it's only going to get better. T...
LIZZY PRESCOTT I was at college studying psychology, philosophy, textiles and drama. But because I wasn't one o...
KATHRYN PRESCOTT If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you&...
KATHRYN PRESCOTT Greg is a throwback. Believe it or not, there are still kids out there who will not whine about blis...
TIM PRESCOTT That's exactly what I expected to happen. Caribou came in off a huge win. They'd lost to us twice in...
TIM PRESCOTT My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
W. E. B. GRIFFIN An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
W. E. B. GRIFFIN Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world.
W. E. B. GRIFFIN Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
COLONEL SAMUEL PRESCOTT Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
N.B.: A lesser-known version...
COLONEL WILLIAM PRESCOTT

A gush of bird-song, a patter of dew, A cloud, and a rainbow's warning, Suddenly sunshine and ...
HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, ...
JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the min...
JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of...
JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wantin...
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT Of all the thankless jobs that economists set for themselves when it comes to educating people about...
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this q...
COLONEL WILLIAM PRESCOTT

We found, before the hands of the dial had taught us the lapse of a week, that this would be somethi...
HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD

The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had d...
JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.
JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE There is an old maxim which states that good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes fr...
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT Multinational companies use their technological know-how in their foreign subsidiaries, so reciproca...
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT We do believe there has been some injury at this point to the brain. The fact that he is not waking ...
DR. JOHN PRESCOTT

Why, observe the thing; turn it over; hold it up to the window; count the beads, long, oval, like so...
HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD

The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived fr...
JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE Despite the impression created by some economic pundits, the U.S. economy is not a delicate little m...
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT We want to see him wake up. There is a medical reason (for the coma). We don't know what it is.
DR. JOHN PRESCOTT We are all hoping he'll be able to give us some indication as to what occurred. We don't know that h...
DR. JOHN PRESCOTT Certainly Mr. McCloy is going to have a tough course. We just don?t know at this point how things wi...
DR. JOHN PRESCOTT He's a critically ill patient.
DR. JOHN PRESCOTT We do believe there has been some injury to the brain.
DR. JOHN PRESCOTT It is an established scientific fact that monetary policy has had virtually no effect on output and ...
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT In the category of economic superpowers, more is better than less - the more technology those leader...
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT You need a real crisis before you have reforms.
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT The Chinese are saving like mad, but they are not getting a very good return on their savings.
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT If productivity grows, the economy does well.
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT After World War II, there were a lot of pension funds in Europe that were fully funded, but they wer...
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?
SHERLEY MONDESIR-PRESCOTT

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you rea...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Education is the development of power and ideal.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
W. E. B. DU BOIS

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what t...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which mo...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restrict...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Irela...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of educatio...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my you...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or rec...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

I am a Bolshevik.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Ab...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line -- the relation of the darker ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critiq...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broa...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - '...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men....
W. E. B. DU BOIS

What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was th...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instea...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivin...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in o...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are do...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word '...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of al...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to brea...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast,...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's sel...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learn...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of the...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us m...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Th...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamel...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

All men cannot go to college but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture amo...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
W. E. B. DU BOIS

For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what th...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self th...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

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