"...she thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them."

-- Sherwood Anderson

“Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it.”

Source : "Hadrian the Seventh" by Frederick Rolfe, Penguin Modern Classics edition, Harmondsworth, (p. 343), 1963.
“I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.”
“The childbearing year is a thirteen month year: the two months before conception, the nine months of pregnancy, and the two months following the birth. The childbearing is a time of adjustments and fierce emotions. The childbearing year touches every season.”
“The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.”
“Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known facts, or to discover their mutual relations.”
“I cheat my boys every chance I get, I want to make 'em sharp.”
“Here in Havana where families make about $20 a month, fewer than 5 percent have Internet in their homes, they are prepared. But it's hard to predict how sweeping this change will be, if the people of Cuba are even ready for it.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.”

Source : Charles Philip Issawi (1999). “Growing Up Different: Memoirs of a Middle East Scholar”, Darwin Press, Incorporated

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