"If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!"

-- Adam Sedgwick

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“A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.”

Source : Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”
“There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song”
“One big reason is better than many little reasons.”
“(The United States) is the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag, calling on the name a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem!”
“New writers seem to pop up from everywhere. And quite a few of them are really good and original.”
“Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?”

Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.142, Octagon Press Ltd
“In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.”

Source : "Rachael Ray Every Day" interview, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.
“If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.”

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