"Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name."

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Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.120

Harriet Ann Jacobs

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“Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage the attempt to synthesize apparent opposites. However, citizens of the New Age often forget that, when they involve science, analogies should be tempered by experiment and calculation.”
“The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.”
“I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.”
“Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.”
“Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each other, as confrontations occur with increasing frequency.”

Source : "A Muhammad cartoon a day" by Daniel Pipes, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.
“There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.”
“I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.”
“What is the difference between a Doctor of Medicine and a Doctor of Theology? One prescribes drugs, while the other might as well be on drugs.”

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