"Truth was truth, whether I darkened my eyes to it or not."

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Source : William Batchelder Greene, Jakob Böhme, Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, Philippe-Joseph-Benjamin Buchez (1849). “Remarks on the science of history: followed by An a priori autobiography”, p.33

William Batchelder Greene

“The '60s were an amazing time.”
“The only way to be who you want to be is by being what you haven't yet been.”
“Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.”
“Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent.”
“One thing that really interests me is-and it comes out of Chinese and Japanese painting-where you have a number of different kinds of space in the same painting. You have a kind of deep space, and then you have something like right up on the surface.”
“I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.”
“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.”

Source : "'Having it all doesn't mean doing it all': Women's grad advice to women" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.
“You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!”

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