"A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter."

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Source : Ariana Franklin (2008). “The Serpent's Tale”, p.43, Penguin

Ariana Franklin

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“Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding in wistful discomfort. The magic that gleams an instant between Argos and Odysseus is both the recognition of diversity and the need for affection across the illusions of form. It is nature's cry to homeless, far-wandering, insatiable man: "Do not forget your brethren, nor the green wood from which you sprang. To do so is to invite disaster.”
“Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.”
“Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants,”
“You have to separate the humanitarian impulse from the record of aid itself. We all want to help. Many people would say that it's the moral impulse of the rich to help the poor, but the record of aid has been terrible.”
“Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.”
“By the inquiry 'Who am I?'. The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts, and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-realization.”
“The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.”

Source : "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act II, 1835.
“It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then.”

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