"To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“Don't cry pretty girl. Who you are is why you're so good at everything. You won't let yourself be otherwise. And thats what fascinates me." Duke- Lament”
“Ironically, members on both sides of the debate do agree about one thing: big bang cosmology puts their position in jeopardy. The big bang poses a problem for young-earth creationists because it makes the universe billions of years old rather than thousands. Such an assertion undercuts their system at its foundation. Big bang cosmology also presents a problem for atheistic scientists because it points directly to the existence of a transcendent Creator - a fact they dare not concede.”
“Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.”

Source : "Margot Fonteyn : Autobiography‎" by Margot Fonteyn, (p. 81), 1975.
“I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.”

Source : "Cold War, Hot Pianist. Now Add 50 Years" by Anthony Tommasini, www.nytimes.com. March 9, 2008.
“Words have power. Speak positively and positive things will happen to you. Speak negatively and negative things will happen to you. Choose positive words.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
“Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black.”

Source : "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". Book by Michelle Alexander, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2010.
“In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.”
“Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.”

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