"Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written."

-- Mark Twain

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“I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.”
“Over my lifetime, women have demonstrated repeatedly that they can do anything that men can do, while still managing traditional women's work at the same time. But the same expansion of roles has not been available to men.”

Source : "International Men’s Day" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. Match 8, 2011.
“I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world â€“ and a type of being â€“ that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, thereâ€™d be no stories. If there were no stories, thereâ€™d be no language. If there was no language thereâ€™d be no . . . What?”
“We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God”
“Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.”

Source : W. E. B. Griffin (1982). “Brotherhood of war, book 1: the lieutenants”
“Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding”
“Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.”
“I'm terrified of bugs and I travel with sprays, lotions, potions; the lot. I have to check the room before I go to sleep and if I come across a bug and fail to remove it I have to sleep in a separate room as I'm paranoid that I'll be taken advantage of as I sleep.”

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