"I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like"

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Source : Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.7, Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly

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“We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to those who've been wounded.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. April 2, 2013.
“We're in need for culture change. We're going to change the way you know you look at food, sugar, sleep.”
“Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.”
“If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. .â€‰.â€‰. And, if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made - that you made - and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.”

Source : Remarks by Naval Adm. William H. McRaven at the University-wide Commencement at The University of Texas at Austin, news.utexas.edu. May 16, 2014.
“But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.”
“Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The closer to the top, the more grew in me the belief that it might be fulfilled, which most dreaming.”
“The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.”

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