"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use."

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Source : "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina". Essay by Galileo Galilei, 1615.

Galileo Galilei

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“True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.”
“I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.”
“Look long enough, out or in, and youâ€™ll be glad you are who you are.”
“The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.”
“I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.”
“All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill. He has done all he could to debase and enslave her mind; and now he looks triumphantly on the ruin he has wrought, and say, the being he has thus deeply injured is his inferior.”

Source : Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.11
“The number one thing is creating this world ["Trolls" ] - what the world is going to look like, feel like and what technology will we need to use to get there.”
“The difference between "winners" and "losers" is not whether they face obstacles and setbacks - we all do, and it is inevitable that plans do not unfold exactly as imagined or that unexpected events surprise us or that a few mistakes happen. The real difference is that "winners" bounce back from a fumble or a loss by refusing to panic, analyzing the situation and looking for positive actions they can take to correct the problem, and then go on to resume winning.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

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