"When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery."

-- Nelson Mandela

#Choices Quotes #Arms Quotes #Slavery Quotes

“Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.”
“I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.”
“The universal elements are integrity, vision, discipline, passion, governed by conscience. Conscience has been educated through studying and pondering the universal, timeless principles of all six major world religions.”
“Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.”

Source : Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage
“That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.”
“Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?”
“If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?”
“Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he's wrong.”

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