"Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good."

-- Alexander Pope

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“we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.”
“Your life, your soul, your world. They cannot kill it. Look at me, Iâ€™ve died but I opened my eyes again.”
“Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.”
“You have given us something more than money, you have given us a lot of your sons, your children that were killed beside our own children in Iraq. Iraqi people are insistent on going along the path for their economy and their security, but we do need the help of other countries who will help us, to stand beside us.”

Source : "CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. June 24, 2005.
“beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them ...”

Source : Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.6
“There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.”

Source : "Ray LaMontagne: Digging Deep And Doing What He Does" by Ellen Sterling, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2010.
“They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming all our faults and imperfections, and of giving to our actions, vitality, beauty and merit.”
“The wise learn many things from their enemies.”

Source : Aristophanes, W. J. Hickie (1873). “The Comedies of Aristophanes”, p.322

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