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I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.
“I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.”
— Edward Brooke · Ability
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“I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.”
“I had male breast cancer and had dual radical modified mastectomy, and I've spent a lot of time working with the Susan G. Komen foundation to make men aware of male breast cancer - if you have breast tissue, you can have breast cancer.”
“The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.”
“I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.”
“I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.”
“I always believed there would be an African-American president. It was something I'd dreamed about, thought about, but certainly did not believe would happen in my lifetime.”
“The ability to identify someone at a moment's notice by snapping a photo of him or her, to trigger an immediate influx of data about the person behind the face, will forever change the world.”
“The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.”
“When traders were able to earn a million dollars, of which base pay was $150,000 to $200,000 and the rest was bonus, they would go for it. Now if you're sitting there earning $600,000, you become less risk-seeking. And if you have less risk-seeking, the ability of the market to be incredibly volatile is increased.”
“Try to imagine that you're the strongest, most noble, most thoughtful, most compassionate, intelligent person in the world, and pretend to be that. Speak from that place. It's more than self-awareness; it's the ability to access this super-intelligence.”
“Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.”