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“I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love -Expertus dico, nemo est in amore fidelis”
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“The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that Anarchy can be instituted by a revolution. "To establish Anarchy." "Anarchy will be instituted." But it will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require protection from governmental power, and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power.”
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“Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.”
Source : Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.417, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
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“Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.”
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“No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.”
Source : Noah Porter (1874). “Books and Reading, Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?”, p.13
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“According to the media, trans women were subject to pain and punch lines. Instead of proclaiming that I was not a plot device to be laughed at, I spent my younger years internalizing and fighting those stereotypes.”
Source : Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
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“There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.”
Source : Independent, November 25, 1998.
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“What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the Gothic buildings — younger, I later learned, than many of the mosques of this city, but made through acid treatment and ingenious stone-masonry to look older...”