"To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness."

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Source : Jerome Frank (1973). “Courts on Trial: Myth and Reality in American Justice”, p.8, Princeton University Press

Jerome Frank

#Impression Quotes #Remove Quotes #Aloofness Quotes

“The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And I imagine, that [ten hundred thousand] of these little Creatures do not equal an ordinary grain of Sand in bigness: And comparing them with a Cheese-mite (which may be seen to move with the naked eye) I make the proportion of one of these small Water-creatures to a Cheese-mite, to be like that of a Bee to a Horse: For, the circumference of one of these little Animals in water, is not so big as the thickness of a hair in a Cheese-mite.”
“Sparkling and bright in liquid light Does the wine our goblets gleam in; With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in.”

Source : Charles Fenno Hoffman (1873). “The Poems of Charles Fenno Hoffman”, p.195
“The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.”

Source : moss hart (1959). “act one”
“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”

Source : Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
“Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.”
“We're all made to make mistakes; nobody's perfect.”
“When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.”
“Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.”

Source : Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.67, Zed Books

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