"It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun. There is hardly a field, economic or political, in which the natural and unaccustomed policy is not to ignore womenâ€¦Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically."

-- Alice Paul

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“As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.”

Source : "History of the Peloponnesian War (Book 2)". Book by Thucydides, 431 BC.
“A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'”
“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.”
“They showed each other that it was alright for their hearts to come out and play; that it was alright to feel close to someone; that love didn't always end in heartbreak.”
“Miyazaki's films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He's an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don't do as well.”

Source : "Director Henry Selick Comic-Con Interview – Talks CORALINE and Next Project". Collider Interview, collider.com. July 25, 2009.
“I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in the UK or a retirement home in the US it is the stories of others that bring a book to life.”

Source : Source: www.bookbrowse.com
“To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious.”
“True worship, worship in spirit and truth, has never been and will never be a trend. This style of music may be a trend, but that's because God's blowing a fresh Wind of His Spirit in so many people who are coming to realize that anything that just builds us up as people isn't worth much. What gives God the spotlight is important. And that's all we're about.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chris Tomlin from Jul 08, 2016

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