"But, though French, she was also very brave..."

-- Susanna Clarke

“[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.”
“I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.”
“Alan Rickman told me to do a play, so I did. Because when Alan Rickman tells you do something, you go and do it.”
“Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. When you sustain that kind of affront, and sustain it and sustain it and sustain it, something happens to you. You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response. For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.
“We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony almost,”
“The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked.”
“Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.”

Source : "Alexandra Cousteau Tells Katie Couric, 'The Thing Every Human Has in Common Is Our Need for Water'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. June 28, 2010.
“Those who Know they do not Know that to Know is to Know what they do not Know!”

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