"If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong; but perhaps he is never so altogether wrong and pig-headed and utterly reprehensible as he is represented to be by those who add the possession of prejudices to the other almost insuperable difficulties of understanding him."

-- Jane Addams

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“Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one's ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume in which it is placed.”
“I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.”
“Let's spend less on trying to fix the unfixable in the last five years of life and spend more supporting people so that they can stay the least disabled as they possibly can, the most independent as they possibly can, and keep them at home.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Certainly you don't want to make something that nobody sees. It's not really about success, it's about sharing something.”
“Let's name the sentimental hog Arnold”
“You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.”
“For me, a dream partner is someone who is willing to learn and to put their trust in me.”
“Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled.”

Source : William Ramsay (1909). “Essays Biographical and Chemical”

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