"Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not."

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Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

Maria Mitchell

“I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.”
“Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.”
“I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.”
“We are currently not planning on conquering the world.”
“Anyway, these books I love, theyâ€™re all books by menâ€”every last one of them. Because if itâ€™s unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to be angry, itâ€™s totally unacceptable for a woman to be angry. I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.”
“The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.”
“New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us.”
“I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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