"All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men. But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house. She let out her breath. I loves Harpo, she say. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me."

-- Alice Walker

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“Al Gore is producing enough hot air to make his doomsday predictions about global warming a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Source : Joseph Farah (2007). “Stop the Presses!: The Inside Story of the New Media Revolution”, p.151, WND Books
“The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.”
“To study the meaning of man and of life â€” I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.”
“When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.”
“nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love ...”
“Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.”
“I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.”
“People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.”

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