"In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not."

-- Abraham Lincoln

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“Oh! mothers aren't fair - I mean it's not fair of nature to weigh us down with them and yet expect us to be our own true selves. The handicap's too great. All those months, when the same blood's running through two sets of veins - there's no getting away from that, ever after. Take yours. As I say, does she need to open her mouth? Not she! She's only got to let it hang at the corners, and you reek, you drip with guilt.”

Source : Henry Handel Richardson (pseud.) (1934). “The End of a Childhood”
“The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.”

Source : "Why do Politicians Feel Free to Hack Away at Special Education?" by Laurie Levy, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2017.
“We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.”

Source : "A tale of mental illness — from the inside". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June, 2012.
“'Sexy' is being independent, being confident and having fun.”
“Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable.”
“Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again.”
“Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.”
“Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.”

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