The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

George Eliot

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

George Eliot

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.

Ambrose Bierce

I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman.

Shawn Ashmore

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.

Michael Ondaatje

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Nisaragada Ha Maharaj

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

Martin Feldstein

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

Jodi Picoult

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Gustave Flaubert

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

George Bernard Shaw

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. Matthew 6:20

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