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I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better. -- Mark Helprin
If [American Idol] was the Olympics, I'd still get a medal. It was a great race. -- Kimberley Locke
He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front. -- Benjamin E. Mays
Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race. -- Ian Mcewan
Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person. -- Tom Kristensen
I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country. -- Emily Murphy
The satisfaction of achieving goals is the greatest thing for me. There is nothing like a great race or ride that gives you an amazing boost. It is very rewarding when you win or do well. -- Liz Halliday
A great race car driver in a bad car doesn't make great results. A great car and a bad race car driver doesn't make great results. You have to have both. It's the combination of driver and car. -- Jeff Burton
Pat Fox out to the forty(yard line) and grabs the sliothar(ball), I bought a dog from his father last week. Fox turns and sprints for goal, the dog ran a great race last Tuesday in Limerick. Fox to the 21 fires a shot, it goes to the left and wide......and the dog lost as well. -- Micheal O Muircheartaigh
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other...consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of mankind, must be collected at once or the opportunity will be lost for all time. -- Edward S. Curtis
A great library contains the diary of the human race. -- Geraldine Dawson
Women, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race. -- Keir Hardie
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race. -- Voltaire
We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race. -- Alfred North Whitehead
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage -- Mark Twain
I wouldn't mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race. -- Al Unser
Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists. -- Ezra Pound
Singapore is a pretty special race with it being held at night; it makes a great show for the fans. -- Romain Grosjean
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots. -- Bernard M. Oliver
The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress. -- Murray Rothbard
What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race? -- Walt Whitman
Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates". -- Neil Postman
Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions. -- David Halberstam
Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color -- John F. Kennedy
I'm looking forward to getting in Reliant and trying to get a win there. That's a great venue and a wonderful race. -- Ricky Carmichael
What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach. -- Jerry Garcia
The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. -- Chief Joseph
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true. -- Catharine Beecher
A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it. -- Julie Andrews
For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race. -- Harlan Ellison
The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents. -- Margaret Halsey
Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us. -- Abraham Lincoln
One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help. -- Langston Hughes
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. -- Emma Goldman
Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects. -- Orison Swett Marden
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are. -- Gore Vidal
The current transgender movement is composed of a great number of factions, divided by those old favorites of class, race, age, language, region, and nationality. -- Kate Bornstein
I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race. -- Lana Del Rey
Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth. -- Will Cuppy
This country is just that great that the opportunities are there for a Hispanic president, a black president or any other race for a president, yes. -- Chris Tucker
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. -- Victor Hugo
Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe. -- D. H. Lawrence
I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly. -- Louis Zamperini
The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth. -- Theodore Parker
The great, the fundamental need of any nation, any race, is for heroism, devotion, sacrifice; and there cannot be heroism, devotion, or sacrifice in a primarily skeptical spirit. -- Anna Julia Cooper
There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race. -- Emil Zatopek

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