"a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things."

-- Lydia M. Child

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“Do you want to make a tamale with peanut butter and jelly? Go Ahead! Somebody will eat it.”
“Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.”
“Fatal North was being poisoned to death aboard his own vessel and by someone from his hand-picked crew... a cold-blooded, calculating, pre-meditated murder by a diabolical killer.”
“Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.”
“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.”
“Fighting, and the employment of force, even for the right cause, will not bring about good results. The oppressed who have right on their side, must not take that right by force; the evil would continue. Hearts must be changed. The rich must wish to give! Life in man should be like a flame, warming all with whom it comes into contact. The spiritually awakened are like to bright torches in the sight of God, they give light and comfort to their fellows.”
“The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.”

Source : "Natalie Merchant On Motherhood As Muse". Interview with Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.
“I never liked you, and I always will.”

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