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“I see no virtue where I smell no sweat.”
Source : Francis Quarles (1857). “Emblems: Divine and Moral”, p.120
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“Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.”
Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.21
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“When people affected by epilepsy are reluctant to expose their condition, the public remains in the dark about it - a tragic irony that has made patient care and raising funds for research more than challenging.”
Source : "Help Us Bring Epilepsy Out of the Shadows" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.
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“I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where she had been. One of the vast O’Keeffe ‘Sky Above Clouds’ canvases floated over the back stairs in the Chicago Art Institute that day, dominating what seemed to be several stories of empty light, and my daughter looked at it once, ran to the landing, and kept on looking. "Who drew it," she whispered after a while. I told her. "I need to talk to her," she said finally.”
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“Oh God! Like the Thunderbird of old I shall rise again out of the sea; I shall grab the instruments of the white man's success - his education, his skills, and with these new tools I shall build my race into the proudest segment of your society.”
Source : "A Lament for Confederation". Chief Dan George's Speech, www.citynews.ca. June 28, 2017.
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“I am the president of the youth of France.”
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“And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders”
Source : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl
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“Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.”