"O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well to leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast fold Sorrow's children, soothe the hurts of Fate, lift the down-trodden, but with hand of steel stay those who to thy sacred portals come to waste the gifts of Freedom."

-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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“When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.”

Source : Shailer Mathews (2006). “The Spiritual Interpretation of History”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.
“Why are you chasing your tail so?" Said the kitten, "I have learned that the best thing for a cat is happiness, and that happiness is my tail. Therefore, I am chasing it: and when I catch it. I shall have happiness." Said the cat, "My son, I, too, have paid attention to the problems of the universe. I, too, have judged that happiness is in my tail. But, I have noticed that whenever I chase it, it keeps running away from me, and when I go about my business, it just seems to come after me wherever I go.”
“Small changes can magnifiy. The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge.”
“I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.”
“I put my life in danger every time I do some of these demonstrations, whether it's in the audience hanging upside down or on the stage. We now have a lot of dangerous stunts where anything can go wrong. In fact, I have fallen two stories and landed on the stage, so I am well aware of the dangers.”
“All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.”
“I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.”

Source : "Fantasia Barrino Is Third 'American Idol'". www.foxnews.com. May 27, 2004.
“And trust. It takes a long time to trust someone. You work with people, anybody you dont know, it takes about a films length to get to know each other. Then if you move on, you have to start right back at the beginning. But if you carry on together and try doing different things, you can all grow together.”

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