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Your grandfather is and will always be your hero, your inspiration. He fought in World War II, came home to Little Rock, Arkansas, and worked for 50 years as a mailman in the segregated south. Not once did he get a job promotion in five decades. But he kept working all the same.

~David Robinson

Topics: Always Arkansas Came Decades Did Five Fought Get Grandfather He Hero Home Inspiration Job Kept Little Little Rock Once Promotion Rock Same Segregated South War Will Worked Working World World War World War Ii Years Your

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We're all Vanilla Ice. Look at Girl Talk and Danger Mouse. Look at William Burroughs, whose cut-up books antedate hip hop sampling by decades. Shakespeare remixed passages of Holinshed's 'Chronicles' in 'Henry VI.' Tchaikovsky's '1812 Overture' embeds the French national anthem.

~David Shields

Topics: Anthem Books Danger Decades French Girl Henry Hip Hip Hop Hop Ice Look Mouse National National Anthem Passages Sampling Shakespeare Talk Vanilla Whose William

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Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

~David Suzuki

Topics: About Been Decades Global Global Warming Impacts Late Lessen Now Scientists Severity Stop Too Too Late Warming Warning

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The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Act Been Climate Decades Events Evidence Extreme Fail Far Floods Frequency Get Happening Increasing Line More Mounting Predicted Predicting Scientists Severe Still Than Weather Will Worse

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Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Ability Altering Amplified Biological Chemical Decades Economy Experts Geological Global Global Economy Human Look Numbers Our Properties Scientists Technology Us Warned Ahead

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'Mudbound' highlights the fact that we're still battling a lot of the same issues as we were all of those decades ago.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Battling Decades Fact Highlights Issues Lot Same Still Those Were

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If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come.

~Dennis Cardoza

Topics: Across Come Cut Decades Enemies Entire Failed Globe Iraq Message National National Security Our Region Run Security Send States Terrorist Undermine United United States Weakness Were Would

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If Trump is president, I think that his administration will do real structural damage that will take years or decades for us to undo.

~Deray Mckesson

Topics: Administration Damage Decades His President Real Structural Take Think Trump Undo Us Will Years I Think

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What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they graduate. And trying to provide a better, richer, fairer, more decent society for the generations after.

~Derek Bok

Topics: After Better Decades Decent Doing Educating Fairer Fulfilling Generations Graduate Live Lives More Prepare Provide Richer Society Students Them Trying

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For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.

~Diane Setterfield

Topics: Ambition Believed Decades Down Extraordinary Gave Life Necessary Reading Settled Several Since Up Wanted Write You

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