"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish."

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Source : Anne Bradstreet, Adrienne Rich, Jeannine Hensley (2010). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Pr

Anne Bradstreet

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“The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.”
“I've been a barbarian my whole life. I'm just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know?”
“Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.”
“I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.”
“He was gorgeous, and I absolutely, no question, had to be drooling. After a quick and hopefully stealthy check â€“ big show, I wasnâ€™t!- I found myself wonder what color his eyes were. Brown maybe. Or even hazel. Either wayâ€¦wow, just wow. Deer? Headlights? Hi, Iâ€™m Ali.”
“The torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games, of peace and togetherness. It's a good idea. And this idea is being misused. I believe in the Olympic ideal and in the torch that symbolizes this ideal. We should be condemning not those who have this ideal, but those who try to destroy it.”

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“In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.”
“Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.”

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