"When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule chairs; in this manner they suffered death without resistance or supplication. Such conduct was in them applauded as noble and magnanimous; in the hapless Indians it was reviled as both obstinate and sullen. How truly are we the dupes of show and circumstances! How different is virtue, clothed in purple and enthroned in state, from virtue, naked and destitute, and perishing obscurely in a wilderness."

-- Washington Irving

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“I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.”
“I didn't know a lot about Amelia before I started flying. And as a woman and a pilot, I should have known more.”
“Boxers are hot, and by boxers I mean guys who box, not the underwear. So get rid of 'em!”
“Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?”

Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.142, Octagon Press Ltd
“No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.”
“The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.”

Source : United States Supreme Court, Stenberg, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. v. Carhart, (2000), No. 99-830, caselaw.findlaw.com. June 28, 2000.
“Jem was safe from her, and he would ride away with a song on his lips and a laugh at her expense, forgetful of her, and of his brother, and of God; while she dragged through the years, sullen and bitter, the stain of silence marking her, coming in the end to ridicule as a soured spinster who had been kissed once in her life and could not forget it.”
“I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability”

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