"Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you."

-- Ben Jonson

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“when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.”
“Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.”

Source : Robert F. Kennedy's Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, www.mtholyoke.edu. June 6, 1966.
“NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.”
“No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being.”

Source : Annotation to "Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas" by Antonio de Morga. Translated by Austin Craig,
“What we must do is start viewing every cow, pig, chicken, monkey, rabbit, mouse, and pigeon as our family members.”
“India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.”

Source : William Dalrymple (2004). “White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India”, p.7, Penguin
“If any person should meddle with my cause, I require them to judge the best'.”
“We are made of stardust, our whole body consists of material that has been here before the beginning of time.”

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