"Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade, On that confusion which thy death has made."

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Source : Phillis Wheatley (1838). “Poems of Phillis Wheatley: A Native African and a Slave”, p.55, Applewood Books

Phillis Wheatley

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“To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.”

Source : John Stuart Mill (2012). “On Liberty”, p.15, Courier Corporation
“But I have seen il Fenomeno do things that nobody else has ever done.”
“I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.”

Source : "Aussie Keith Urban's success 'destiny'" By Lauren Hunter, cnn.com. February 19, 2001.
“You don't always need all of the bells and the whistles. I learned in my life, throughout my journey, that I'm enough. I don't need all of the extras. I just live my truth, and as long as I do that, I feel like I'll be good in whatever circumstance.”
“I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.”
“The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to share profits, it's called a bonus.”
“No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.”
“If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.”

Source : "Nell Freudenberger: ‘The Newlyweds’ Author On Her New Book And The Woman Who Inspired It". Interview with Lori Fradkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.

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