"Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him."

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Source : "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.

Sojourner Truth

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“I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.”

Source : Whitey Herzog, Kevin Horrigan (1988). “White Rat: A Life in Baseball”, HarperCollins
“I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it is a slowly growing tree with a kind of really solid heartwood. It has always been a form of sculpture, a symbol for this planet.”
“Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. Thereâ€™s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the â€œAha.â€ Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that weâ€™re in â€” the one that we think is reality.”

Source : "Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk - and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.
“And what about you-the rest of you-did you notice the scars you left behind? No. Probably not. Because most of them can't be seen with the naked eye.”

Source : Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.68, Penguin
“The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.”
“If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.”
“A treaty cannot be made which alters the Constitution of the country, or which infringes and express exceptions to the power of the Constitution.”
“Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come out and where the sun would appear in the morning.”

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