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“Bombay is far ahead of Bengal in the matter of female education. I have visited some of the best schools in Bengal and Bombay, and I can say from my own experience that there are a larger number of girls receiving public education in Bombay than in Bengal; but while Bengal has not come up to Bombay as far as regarded extent of education, Bengal is not behind Bombay in the matter of solidarity and depth.”
Source : Speech delivered at the East India Association, London, May 13, 1870.
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“I thought, I loved Batman, I loved Spider-Man, I love all these characters, but Catwoman is really different from any other one.”
Source : IGN Interview, www.ign.com. July 2, 2004. 
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“Sisters are the worst. And they are the best. A sister can be awful and complicated and loving and protective and petty and competitive, and when you die she is the person you want beside you holding your hand. Somebody's gotta organize the potluck after the service and you know your husband's not gonna be up to the job.”
Source : Cathy Lamb (2009). “Henry's Sisters”, p.96, Kensington Publishing Corp.
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“No word in our language not even "Socialism" has been employed more loosely than " Mysticism ." ... The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut...”
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“We need not fear the judgement of history. Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?”
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“I have no need to take up each thing that wants to throw its cause on us and show that it is occupied only with itself, not with us, only with its good, not with ours. Look at the rest for yourselves. Do truth, freedom, humanity, justice, desire anything else than that you grow enthusiastic and serve them?”
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“I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.”
Source : "The Bible and Congressman Broun" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2012.
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“Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.”
