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If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Time
Achieve
Ethics
First
Own
Assume
Proletariat
Solidarity
Classes
All-Time
Case
Bear
Economic
Leading
New
Method
American
Uplift
Done
May
Doomed
Cannot
Which
Plain
Necessity
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.
Walter Lord
Me
Courage
Once
Runs
Thread
Physical
Physical Courage
Someone
Through
Intellectual
Personal
Just
Plain
Them
Premium
There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.
Walter Lord
People
Think
About
Exceptions
Had
Couple
Mostly
Talking
Although
Passed
Were
Years
Very
Families
Just
Want
Interested
Plain
Forty
Forty Years
Even
Social man regards all those by whom he is surrounded as enemies, or beings who may become such. He is ever on his guard lest his plain speaking should be willfully perverted, or should assume a meaning he never thought of, through the animosity or prejudice of the individual that hears him.
William Godwin
Man
Enemies
Thought
Become
Assume
Guard
Those
Individual
Through
Never
He
Animosity
Him
His
Hears
Surrounded
May
Regards
Plain
Social
Meaning
Prejudice
Should
Speaking
Who
Beings
Lest
Whom
Ever
Owning a token bestows a right that results in product usage, a governance action, a given contribution, voting, or plain access to the product or market.
William Mougayar
Voting
Action
Market
Given
Results
Access
Governance
Contribution
Owning
Plain
Product
Usage
Token
Right
Buttermilk's palate-cleansing tartness is one reason it's used a lot in southern India, where meals often end with a small bowl of the stuff served with plain rice and pickles.
Yotam Ottolenghi
India
Small
Pickles
Stuff
Bowl
Lot
End
Southern
Often
Where
Meals
Plain
Rice
Used
Reason
Served
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
Baron d'Holbach
Words
Men
Judgment
Sense
Nothing
Other
Find
Examine
More
Uncommon
Absurd
Opinions
Discover
Contradictions
Than
Truths
Lack
Common
In Other Words
Common Sense
Plain
Palpable
Reject
There are some very plain, very simple offences in the Fraud Act 2006 that can be applied to price manipulation. For example, there's fraud by false representation. This is aimed at people who say something misleading to line their pockets or cause financial harm to someone else.
Emily Thornberry
People
Financial
Simple
Cause
Example
Else
Say
Fraud
Some
Someone
Pockets
Something
Price
Misleading
For Example
Line
False
Very
Representation
Plain
Manipulation
Act
Who
Applied
Harm
We often come across certain directors who mention some of their own flops as their favourites. They will blame the viewers for not realising its merits. I think that is plain hypocrisy.
Sreenivasan
Blame
Will
Hypocrisy
Own
Think
I Think
Favourites
Some
Directors
Mention
Merits
Come
Often
Realising
Plain
Certain
Across
Viewers
Who
Flops
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
Uma Thurman
Life
My Life
First
Teen
Everyone
Mine
Spent
Hideous
Adolescence
Weird
Know
Looks
Were
Years
Plain
Convinced
Painful
Fourteen
I would describe myself as a very plain but very honest person.
Taeyang
Myself
Honest Person
Would
Very
Person
Plain
Describe
Honest
People, a lot of times, don't like what's different. When it's something different out there, the majority of people will be like 'aww, that's wack!' but if it's regular, plain or a straight through flow, it's easier for them to adapt to, because everyone likes the normal.
E-40
People
Will
Everyone
Easier
Out
Something
Through
Like
Likes
Majority
Because
Normal
Lot
Times
Different
Plain
Straight
Them
Regular
Flow
Adapt
I'm a plain speaker.
John McDonnell
Plain
Speaker
It might sound unconvincing when an actor like me who has done 500 films says that television is more competitive than movies, but that is the plain truth.
Ranjeet
Truth
Me
Films
Says
Television
More
Like
Sound
Than
Done
Movies
Plain
Might
Who
Actor
Competitive
I am a woman, I am a minority person, and I speak in a very plain way. And I think that reaches people.
Mazie Hirono
Woman
People
Speak
I Am
Minority
Think
I Think
Way
Am
Very
Person
Plain
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