"Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom."

-- Mary Renault

“The mathematics is not there till we put it there.”
“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.”
“Life's too short to stay where we are.”

Source : Song: Moving On, 2015
“Halifax against Spurs, the original David against Goliath confrontation”
“America must always be the world's paramount military power, but we can magnify our power through alliances.”
“You are so beautiful, he mouthed. But of course she couldnâ€™t see his lips. Guess he was going to have to show her.”

Source : J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.2735, Penguin
“Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of womenâ€™s silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt.”

Source : Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr
“I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: 'If I sit down and do this, everything will come out okay.'”

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