"Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, but every woman's struggle."

-- Carrie Chapman Catt

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“Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.”

Source : Clarence Darrow's remarks at a debate with religious leaders in Kansas City, as quoted in a Emanuel Haldeman-Julius' eulogy for Clarence Darrow, 1938.
“I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.”
“In my private life I do what I like. The night is my friend. If I don't go out, I don't score.”
“Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.”
“People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.”
“Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.901, Delphi Classics
“Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.”

Source : "It's Do-able!: Power to Unleash Your Dream". Book by Canaan Mashonganyika, 2013.
“What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.”

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