"Learn as much by writing as by reading."

-- Lord Acton

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“When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, What is that to you? If you have for years defrauded me of my rightful inheritance, and then, as a stroke of policy, of from late conviction, concluded to restore to me my own domain, must I ask you whether I may make of it a garden of flowers, or a field of wheat, or a pasture for kine?”

Source : Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1979). “History of Woman Suffrage”, Ayer Company Pub
“In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.”
“You may live in a crowd but you meet God and face eternity alone”
“The greatest battles are fought in the mind.”
“I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside. And I think it was out of this experience, not at the moment consciously, but through the years, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they require irrespective of their individual capacity to pay.”
“Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.”
“I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.”

Source : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.407, Wordsworth Editions

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