"Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle."

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Jane Swisshelm

#Men Quotes #Sticks Quotes #Angle Quotes

“She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.”
“Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past.”
“I was quiet but I was not blind.”

Source : Jane Austen (2004). “Mansfield Park”, p.439, Collector's Library
“Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.”
“Let’s not only take great photos, but let’s make great photos with our lives.”

Source : Matthew Knisely (2014). “Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World”, p.106, Thomas Nelson Inc
“It is security that I crave and money provides security. What is that old line about money? "Some is good, more is better and too much is just right."”
“If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.”

Source : Quoted in N.T. Bailey's The Mathematical Approach to Biology and Medicine Chapter 2 (p. 23)
“To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially framed styles of life. (...) Not just lifestyles, but self-actualisation is packaged and distributed according to market criteria.”

Source : Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.204, John Wiley & Sons

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