"I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please."

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Source : Woodhull and Claflin'sWeekly, 20 Nov. 1871

Victoria Woodhull

#Change Quotes #Long Quotes #May Quotes

“There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).”
“I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes And feblit with infermite: Timor Mortis conturbat me.* * Fear of Death troubles me.”

Source : c.1505 'Lament for the Makaris', stanza 1. The Latin is from the Office for the Dead:'The fear of death disturbs me'.
“To be honest, I'm a bit of a snob now; give me a Four Seasons anywhere in the world and I'm happy. Also, they've just opened a Ritz-Carlton in County Wicklow, Ireland, which is stunning and has great views.”
“Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please professors, even if what professors teach is fatuous. The point is to get ahead, and getting ahead means deference to authority. Challenging authority is never a career advancer.”
“The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.”
“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.”

Source : Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.46, ACP Press
“I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors”
“Let's build a battery plant here.”

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