"In all ages, through all the varied experience of individuals and nations, knowledge has been the power which has civilized, elevated and dignified humanity. In those countries where progress has been most rapid, the thirst for knowledge has been most intense."

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Source : Gerda Lerner, Sarah Moore Grimké (1998). “The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké”, p.77, Oxford University Press, USA

Sarah Moore Grimke

#Country Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“I'm doing my job. I'm doing what's expected out of me, and I'm proud of the way I've been able to perform and contribute.”
“Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize its the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?”
“When you start organizing a person's vitamins in the morning because you love them. "Hey, don't forget to take your vitamin C." That's love.”
“Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.”
“I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.”

Source : "Dallas Cowboys Legend Tony Dorsett: Bleacher Report Exclusive Interview". Interview with Jason Henry, bleacherreport.com. JANUARY 17, 2011.
“On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.”
“I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.”
“Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.”

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