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“Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.”
Source : Bruce Barton (1920). “It's a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest”
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“You must take a year off, one of these days, before you’re old and tired and weighed down by responsibility. Go away somewhere, and read. Read all the important books. Educate yourself, then you’ll see the world in a different way.”
Source : Helon Habila (2010). “Oil on Water”, p.181, Penguin UK
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“As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions.”
Source : Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage
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“I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.”
Source : "Interview with author Naomi Benaron: Running the Rift". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. Jenuary 3, 2012.
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“I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.”
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“I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.”
Source : "Expressing 'the Misery and Confusion Truthfully'". Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, American Drama, Volume 14, No. 1 (p. 87), Winter 2005.
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“The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn”
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“Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.”
Source : Willard Van Orman Quine (1986). “Philosophy of Logic”, p.35, Harvard University Press