"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."

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Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.79

Harriet Ann Jacobs

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“The creative part, with the writing of it and the vision, and finding the voice of a show and the characters, is much harder to teach somebody. It's like music. You can either play it or you can't. If you can't play music and you really struggle and work hard, you can learn, but you have to have some inner gift to take it to the next level.”
“The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.”

Source : Malcolm Fraser, Denis M. White, David Alistair Kemp (1986). “Malcolm Fraser on Australia”
“Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake and that of your children, however, I recommend it - I almost insist on it - as the first step for anyone unhappy in a relationship.”

Source : "'It Doesn't Have to Be That Way': How to manage a hassle-free divorce" by Laura Wasser, www.today.com. October 2, 2013.
“As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.”
“Being a teenager is hard.”
“Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.”
“I admire narcissism in Momus and others who "own" it and use it as a way to explore ideas/themselves and also as a form of humor. I don't think of myself as narcissistic, but I'm definitely incredibly self absorbed. I guess I wonder if seeing the world through the lens of yourself is necessarily less valid than other ways of thinking/seeing though.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.”

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