"The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household."

-- William Christopher Handy

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“Layer upon layer, Italy's storied past unfolds in Robert Kaster's captivating journey along the venerable Queen of Roads. I cannot imagine a more perfect guide to such a rich trove of ancient and modern memories. Illuminating, erudite, entertaining, and evocative.”
“Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal before his eye, and was thus able to estimate the construction and values of his representation ...”

Source : Sir William Rothenstein (1934). “Men and memories: recollections of William Rothenstein”
“It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal. And the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down.”
“AIDS today in Africa is claiming more lives than the sum total of all wars, famines and floods and the ravages of such deadly diseases as malaria ... We must act now for the sake of the world.”
“(God) gives the weak a weapon for self-defense that the strong, despite his military and nuclear arsenals, can do nothing against. There are clerics who condemn this and even say that these are suicide operations that are not allowed in Islam.”

Source : "Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi in Favor of Suicide Operations". MEMRI TV, April 2004.
“The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.”

Source : Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.66, Feminist Press at CUNY
“Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.”
“A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart”

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