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Stacy Schiff
"My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents!"
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Source : "Stacy Schiff, author of 'Cleopatra: A Life,' on the perfect biography subject". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. 
Stacy Schiff
#Girl Quotes
#Book Quotes
#Massachusetts Quotes
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“I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.”
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“The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart...”
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“My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.”
Source : "The Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson (November 7, 1943 speech to Gauleiters in Munich), 1997.
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“There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.”
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“Second thoughts, they say, are best.”
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“My parents created their own war.”
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“The great and rare mystics of the past . . . were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In other words, they most definitely are not figures of the past. They are figures of the future.”
Source : Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.261, Shambhala Publications
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“We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.”
