"A government which can protect and defend its citizens from wrong and outrage and does not is vicious. A government which would do it and cannot is weak; and where human life is insecure through either weakness or viciousness in the administration of law, there must be a lack of justice and where this is wanting, nothing can make up the deficiency."

-- Frances Harper

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“Throughout history, ideas need patrons.”

Source : "Covert Operations" by Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. August 30, 2010.
“I'm somebody that has a very big competitive edge and a chip on my shoulder.”

Source : "Up Close with Erin Andrews". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com.
“They fight so much for two reasons. One is they don't want to be blamed for breaking the spending caps. And secondly, they don't want to be blamed for spending the Social Security surplus on non-Social Security problems.”
“When a problem seems intractable, it is often a good idea to try to study "toy" versions of it in the hope that as the toys become increasingly larger and more sophisticated, they would metamorphose, in the limit, to the real thing.”

Source : "Self-avoiding Walks, the Language of Science, and Fibonacci Numbers". Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Volume 54, Issue 1, September 1996.
“Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.”

Source : Ezra Taft Benson (1983). “Come unto Christ”, Deseret Book Co
“Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.”
“You can't make a movie for everybody. You can't go into it trying to alienate people, but you have to assume that you're going to.”
“I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.”

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