"The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his happy illustration-does now stand alone. Instead of one, we see many footprints, each in turn in advance of the print behind it, and on a higher level."

-- Hugh Miller

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“I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.”

Source : Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.116, Courier Corporation
“The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.”
“...,the will of God for your life is pretty straightforward: Be holy like Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, for the glory of God.”
“Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid gardens of another place, where Forms and Styles and Knowledge dwell. I love flowers made of glass or gold, true Art's true gifts, their painted hues more beautiful than nature's, worked in nacre and enamel, with perfect leaves and branches.”
“Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.”
“And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Apr 27, 2014
“There have been situations where the people you're around have one vision for you, and it's like trying on a jacket that doesn't fit.”
“Happy people attract other happy people. Show the world your smile, and the world will smile back.”

Source : FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Oct 20, 2010

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