"I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, - being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose."

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Source : James Redpath, John Brown (1860). “The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth”, p.351

John Brown

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“I am allergic to domestic goddesses. Men would prefer a woman with a dirty mind to a clean house.”
“Moving to Australia was not a career move, but a quality of life issue. It has no guns, no God, and no gangster rap. As an Ethiopian cab driver said to me the other day when I was returning from a gig in Sydney, Australia is a peaceful, democratic place. I like the relatively stress free lifestyle. It's worth the drop in income.”
“If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.”
“Benedick looked to the ceiling as though begging for divine patience. Or for the Lord to strike his sister down. Callie couldnâ€™t quite discern which.”
“The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.”
“History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it - as with these - life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.”
“Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny,”
“My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.”

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