"I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is."

-- James Otis

#Hands Quotes #Dying Quotes #Slavery Quotes

“Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable!”
“Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.”
“My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.”
“There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.”
“The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.”
“I was raised really, really healthy, pretty much vegetarian and a very clean lifestyle, I don't smoke, I don't drink. I'm more addicted to the things that make me feel good - endorphins after working out.”

Source : "Elizabeth Berkley joins TV's ballroom blitz". Interview with Choire Sicha, www.latimes.com. April 6, 2008.
“Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.”

Source : Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.33
“That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I'd always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph's part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.”

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