"Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation."

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Source : Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

Frances Power Cobbe

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“Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.”
“The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have taken the course (as a Specimen of the Political Arithmetic I have long aimed at) to express myself in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure; to use only Arguments of Sense, and to consider only such Causes, as have visible Foundations in Nature.”
“Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people will be under our protection, else you will have only yourself to blame for the consequences, for I bring the men who desire death as ardently as you desire life.”

Source : Khalid ibn al-Walid's letter to the Persian monarch Emperor Yazdegerd III, as quoted in John Clark Ridpath "History of the World, Volume IV (Book XII: The Mohammedan Ascendency, p. 463), 1910.
“The tongue has no bones, but can break a heart.”
“I just love having little vocal snippets like laughs and coughs, not necessarily stuff that has huge significance, just little human qualities.”
“We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.”
“I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission.”
“some of my happiest funniest times have been spent in offices. Perhaps because the work was mudane, even the tiniest of distractions become wildly hilarious and wonderful. Actually, I'd say that 90 per cent of my doubled-over-gasping-with-laughther-laughing-so-much-that-you-can't-breathe-and-you-think-you-might-die laughing has occurred during slow days in offices.”

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