"Valentine's Day is a sham created by card companies to reinforce gender stereotypes. [..] I'll buy some cookies, but NOT for Valentine's Day. These cookies celebrate the February 14th birthday of Anna Howard Shaw, famed American suffragette."

-- Anna Howard Shaw

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“Being a father can unreason your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. Its sad that childrens open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.”
“Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace. A life with many landmarks, a life which is much subdivided when those subdivisions are not of the same kind, and when new and diverse interests, impressions, and labours follow each other in swift and distinct successions, seems the most long...”

Source : William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1909). “The Map of Life”
“I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.”
“Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.”
“He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.”
“The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important sense, unreadable.”
“I'm always amazed at how people make work no matter how intense the pressure.”
“Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs.”

Source : Newton Lee (2015). “Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness”, p.85, Springer

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