"A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us."

--

George Vancouver

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“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
“Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material.”

Source : "Wayne McGregor: Zen and the art of dance". Interview with Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2009.
“History teaches everything, even the future.”

Source : Alphonse de Lamartine (1854). “History of the French Revolution of 1848”, p.19
“If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.”
“The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.”
“No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, you are beautiful”
“Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.”
“Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.”

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