"One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books."

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Amos Bronson Alcott

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“I've never made any choice or done anything that wasn't what I think it should be. I've never compromised, but I do listen.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi boycott. Teenagers patrolled the streets distributing handbills asking shoppers to boycott German goods.....”
“Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.”

Source : "Approaches to Writing". Book by Paul Horgan, No. 398, 1973.
“The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.”
“What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together; and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon ... or a husband.”

Source : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.210
“People think I'm a freemason, and I'm not. People think I believe the end of the world is coming on 21 December 2012, and I don't.”
“In death as in life, I defy the Jews who caused this last war [WW II], and I defy the powers of darkness which they represent. I am proud to die for my ideals, and I am sorry for the sons of Britain who have died without knowing why.”
“Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.”

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