Tariq Nelson

‘I’ve had so many downs that I knew the law of average would be in my favor one day.’ - Doug Williams (Super Bowl quarterback)

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“President-Elect Obama strongly condemns today’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and his thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, and the people of India. These coordinated attacks on innocent civilians demonstrate the grave and urgent threat of terrorism. The United States must continue to strengthen our partnerships with India and nations around the world [...]

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“Don’t try to be a great man, just be a man and let history make its own judgments”
Zefram Levar Cochrane

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Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy

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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise — with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country”
- Abraham Lincoln

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“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.”
- Martin Luther King

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“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is. “
- Former Vice President Dan Quayle trying to quote the United Negro College Fund slogan “The mind is a terrible thing to waste”

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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward

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“We have now sunk to a depth at which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” - George Orwell

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“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm - but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.“ [...]

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“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
- Thomas Paine

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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.“

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“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”

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