"Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word"

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Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.119

Harriet Ann Jacobs

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“The true spirit of Christmas is love”
“Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.”

Source : Diane Ravitch (2011). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.118, Basic Books
“I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes.”
“So yes, the roles are getting more and more like me. But that's because Xena was so entirely unlike me. Most people aren't really aware of that.”

Source : "Xena vs. Mother Nature - Locusts, mutant bats, a vast flood these are the terrors that torment Lucy Lawless, writes Rob Salem" by Rob Salem, The Toronto Star, p. C05, October 30, 2005.
“Stay neurotic. Stay frustrated. Stay emotional. Stay excited. Your life is happening.”
“Normal, day-to-day things inspire you to write. I try to travel and chill, and go out and enjoy the outdoors. That makes you see the real world. Not just in the studio or at concerts. I live it up as normal as I can.”

Source : Source: www.artistdirect.com
“Every time a man puts a new idea across, he faces a dozen men who thought of it before he did. But they only thought of it.”
“I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.”

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