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“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”
Source : Speech at County Meeting of Buckinghamshire, 1784
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“Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.”
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“I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not?”
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“Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.”
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“I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still... and hasted not to go down about a whole day' (Joshua x. 13) and 'He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time' (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory.”
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“In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.”
Source : "Remembering the Forgotten Killer" by Mandy Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.
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“The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.”
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“She [my mother] had a will power that was undeniable. She went on to be with the Lord, she passed away but she lives through me.”
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