"Now God be praised, I will die in peace."

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Source : Dying words, in J. Knox 'Historical Journal of Campaigns, 1757-60' (1769) (vol. 2, p. 114 1914 ed.)

James Wolfe

“I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.”

Source : Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee at the USSC Justice Confirmation Hearings, delivered 28 June 2010
“Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.”
“Sweetheart, all men are animals. Feed us, pet us, and use a firm hand, and we'll worship at your feet.”
“When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.”
“I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines.”
“Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“Perhaps God gives us a hint about whom God favors through physical and material prosperity. So those who are doing well are probably favored by God.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.”

Source : Dan Flavin (1989). “Neue Anwendungen fluoreszierenden Lichts mit Diagrammen, Zeichnungen und Drucken von Dan Flavin, 26.2.-16.4.1989, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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