"The rain begins with a single drop."

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Source : Manal al-Sharif (2017). “Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

Manal al-Sharif

“In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade.”
“I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.”
“Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.”

Source : Sam Houston (1940). “The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863”
“I try to just be open to what the next experience is and how it makes me feel, just reading a project, or trying to get involved with a project, or thinking about a project, and what particular emotional flavor that brings. To me, it's never really about planning the next thing, or the career arc. It's about investigating how I feel, from project to project, and finding things that I haven't explored and what that would be like.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I don't really like the world 'muse.'”
“That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
“Craziness in a shoe is great - you can have much more freedom, you can exaggerate and it doesn't feel stupid. But to have too much craziness near your face, that would just feel weird.”
“Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.”

Source : "Anti-Dühring". Book by Frederick Engels, Part I, Chapter XI: "Morality and Law", www.marxists.org. 1877.

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