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“Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.”
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“I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground.”
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“In all ages, through all the varied experience of individuals and nations, knowledge has been the power which has civilized, elevated and dignified humanity. In those countries where progress has been most rapid, the thirst for knowledge has been most intense.”
Source : Gerda Lerner, Sarah Moore Grimké (1998). “The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké”, p.77, Oxford University Press, USA
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“I love both the sun and the moon, day and night. But I enjoy the day the most because I live in Rio and I can play sports.”
Source : Personal Quote, www.imdb.com. 
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“I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.”
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“I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.”
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“Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.”
Source : "Matthew Macfadyen: 'I do have a good eye'". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.
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“Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination...”
