"Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory."

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Source : Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.288

Frederick William Robertson

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“The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesnâ€™t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.”
“Things happen in a way that surprises. That's why I'm reluctant to predict. You cannot predict.”

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“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”

Source : Willie Morris (1970). “North toward home”, Yoknapatawpha Pr
“The difference between where you are today and where you'll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you've read.”
“How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? . . . Twelve white men say a black man must die, and another white man sets the date and time without consulting one black person. . . . They sentence you to death because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time, with no proof that you had anything at all to do with the crime . . . . Yet six months later they come and unlock your cage and tell you, We, us, white folks all, have decided it's time for you to die, because this is the convenient date and time.”
“I was born when you kissed me.”
“I think it is said that Gauss had ten different proofs for the law of quadratic reciprocity. Any good theorem should have several proofs, the more the better. For two reasons: usually, different proofs have different strengths and weaknesses, and they generalise in different directions - they are not just repetitions of each other.”

Source : "Interview with Michael Atiyah and Isadore Singer". Interview with Martin Raussen, Christian Skau, www.researchgate.net. February 2005.
“Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?”

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