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“A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.”
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“Sometimes I'll fall off the wagon, but you learn that there's a time and a place. I'm young and I wanna have fun and go crazy, but then you go home and you're a mom and you have to give all that time to your family. It's just finding out when to do what and where.”
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“I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us.”
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“History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.”
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“The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.”
Source : Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum”, p.94, Portobello Books
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“Let's build a battery plant here.”
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“As mineralogy constitutes a part of chemistry, it is clear that this arrangement [of minerals] must derive its principles from chemistry. The most perfect mode of arrangement would certainly be to allow bodies to follow each other according to the order of their electro-chemical properties, from the most electro-negative, oxygen, to the most electro-positive, potassium; and to place every compound body according to its most electro-positive ingredient.”
Source : "An Attempt to Establish a Pure Scientific System of Mineralogy: By the Application of the Electro-Chemical Theory and the Chemical Proportions". Book by Jons Jacob Berzelius, 1814.
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“I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.”
Source : William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.8, Univ. Press of Mississippi