"The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man"

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Source : Charles Sumner (1850). “Orations and Speeches [1845-1850]”, p.122

Charles Sumner

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“I mean we certainly always shoot a lot of extra material, but our goal was to make kind of like a big kind of rock-and-roll road trip comedy that has heart and that has hopefully you feel bad for Russell and you feel bad for Aldeus and also I wanted to surprise people with some of the turns in the movie and I think when I watched it with audiences they certainly...the reactions made me think that we did and so all that I'm just very excited about it.”
“The future is sending back good wishes and waiting with open arms.”
“If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain.”
“I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.”
“The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That's how most people thought.”
“I have days when I just feel I look like a dog.”

Source : "Michelle Pfeiffer: Into The Mind Of Michelle". Movieline Interview, movieline.com. April 1, 2002.
“We actually need intelligent doubt and skepticism; they protect us against mistaken views and propaganda.”
“He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father.”

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