"If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon the rights of others, but on the contrary endeavoring, so far as he might be able, to forward their views and promote their happiness, all would be active and harmonious in the goodly frame of human society."

-- William Wilberforce

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“I was lucky enough to be a "type." Sort of a bad-guy type at the time, because I was tall and I had dark eyes. A lot of times, you don't have to be good; you just have to be the right type.”
“[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.”
“Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper.”
“I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.”
“I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.”
“Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. It's as if he has something to do here and just wants to arrive and grow up so he can get to it.”

Source : Rebecca Walker (2008). “Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence”, p.34, Penguin
“Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.”
“There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.”

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