"It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind."

-- Clara Barton

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“Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.”

Source : "Actor Roma Downey: Being inspired by kindness and the centering ritual of tea". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.”
“I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably”
“When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.”
“Black and white might be sufficient. But why deprive yourself of color.”
“I hate using this term [miracle]. I'm a man of science. I'm a doctor. I don't use this word. But he said, it's a miracle your mom's alive.”
“The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.”
“If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.”

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