"Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs."

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Source : Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1881). “Asphodel, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'.”

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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“Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was happening elsewhere, so I took a holiday from painting for a few years.”
“The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them, ... I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.”

Source : The Olympian, October 04, 2005.
“I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.”
“I like using LEGO bricks as a medium because I enjoy seeing peopleâ€™s reaction to artwork created from something with which they are familiar. â€¦My goal is to elevate this simple plaything to a place it has never been before. I also appreciate the cleanliness of the LEGOÂ® brick. The right angles. The distinct lines. But, from a distance, those right angles and distinct lines offer new perspectives, changing to curves.”
“I sort of have to self-censor sometimes.”
“Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.”
“When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.”

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