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“All it takes are a few simple outfits. And there's one secret - The Simpler The Better”
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“A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.”
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“There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.”
Source : "See It Now (A Conversation with J. Robert Oppenheimer)". Documentary (interview with Edward R. Murrow), January 4, 1955.
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“Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.”
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“Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect. We were enemies if anything. He hated me, and I knew it, and he knew I knew it. I didn't like him, but I needed him, needed him to tell me something that none of the others could or would.”
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“A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water.”
Source : Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.218, Pan Macmillan
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“Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.”
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“But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us are an example of the proverb, 'The harlot reproves the chaste.' For those who have set up a market for fornication and established infamous resorts for the young for every kind of vile pleasure - who do not abstain even from males, males with males committing shocking abominations, outraging all the noblest and comeliest bodies in all sorts of ways, so dishonoring the fair workmanship of God.”
