"There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day."

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Source : Susan Glaspell, Eric S. Rabkin (1912). “Lifted Masks, and Other Works”, p.256, University of Michigan Press

Susan Glaspell

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Eternity forbids thee to forget.”
“In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.”
“When does a building actually become a built?”
“Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.”
“I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.”
“Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet; Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.”
“The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.”
“Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its very lifeblood. For reason and scientific method can flourish only in an atmosphere of civil liberties.”

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