"I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count."

-- Patricia Ireland

#Issues Quotes #Florida Quotes #African American Quotes

“The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.”
“The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality”

Source : "Hilbert". Book by Constance Reid, 1970.
“Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one's life or one's goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim.”
“My accent always works with girls. They like it, I have no idea why.”
“I've had to work on being a slow talker.”

Source : "Actor gets the word out on stuttering" by Kat Carney, www.cnn.com. April 4, 2003.
“If you want good roses, sharpen your knife and harden your heart.”

Source : Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”
“It has been said that a friend is somebody with whom it is possible to be silent.”

Source : Robert Evans (2006). “The Kid Stays in the Picture”, p.282, Phoenix Books, Inc.
“It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money according to their notions, our writers usually furnish their pages rapidly with the productions of their own soil: they run up a quickset hedge, or plant a poplar, and get trees and hedges of this fashion much faster than the former landlords procured their timber. The greater part of our writers, in consequence, have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them; and those who never quote, in return are never quoted!”

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