"It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.”

Source : Jennifer Armintrout (2007). “Blood Ties Book Two: Possession”, p.106, MIRA
“I don't think taste is about money. As your career develops, you're able to decide what to spend your money on. I live in a really small apartment in London, and that's a choice. I live at The Carlyle in New York, but it's not big. It's about making choices of style over flashiness. People's style is subjective and mine happens to be around the classical because I feel comfortable with that, and because of my background. I'm probably living in the wrong time. I should have lived in the Thirties or the Fifties.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.”
“After one has been in a lowly position, one knows how dangerous it is to climb to a high place, Once one has been in the dark, one knows how revealing it is to go into the light. Having maintained quietude, one knows how tiring compulsive activity is. Having nurtured silence, one knows how disturbing much talk is.”
“Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.”
“Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agencyâ€™s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It may seem like a work of fiction, but it is very real, very impressive, and will help us to further uncover the mysteries surrounding the formation of the solar system. They made a beautiful short film using an imaginary landscape to illustrate todayâ€™s historic feat.”
“I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it.”
“I dont think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.”

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