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“Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.”
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“First be the best and then be first”
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“I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the kind of authority that writes books.”
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“Well, we want to make sure there's not securities fraud.”
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“We have no more thought of using our own powers to escape the arm of authorities than had the Apostles of old. No more are we ready to keep silent at man's behest when God commands us to speak. For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.”
Source : "Religion in the Reich" by Michael Power, (p. 142), 1939.
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“Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged,”
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“Money doesn't grow on trees, and if it did, someone else would own the orchard.”
Source : "Heapin' Helping of True Grizzard: Down Home Again with Lewis Grizzard".
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“I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery...”
Source : "Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering: No Universal Constants". Book by Susan A. Ambrose, Barbara B. Lazarus and Indira Nair, 1997.
