"I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)"

-- Barbara Mertz

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“I prefer law to war under all circumstances.”

Source : "Crimes Against Humanity Benjamin Ferencz Interview". Interview with Katy Clark, ratical.org. September 19, 2001.
“Scott-there's nothing in the world I want but you-and your precious love. All the material things are nothing. I'd just hate to live in a sordid, colorless existence-because you'd soon love less-and less-and I'd do anything-anything-to keep your heart for my own-I don't want to live-I want to love first and live incidentally.”
“Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.”

Source : "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics". Book by W. W. Rouse Ball, 1893.
“It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.”

Source : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.
“I think everything is fair game to a certain extent.”
“You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.”
“Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.”

Source : "Mumbai is my kind of city" by Vikas Swarup, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2008.
“The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.”

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