"What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them."

-- Ellen Glasgow

#Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes #People Quotes

“Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.”
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”

Source : Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)
“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.”
“We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep Purple. You learn about the percussive value of words, and you learn about rhyme and meter. You learn that you can't transform a poem into a song lyric, mostly because the spoken shape of words is different than the sung shape of words. You wouldn't use the vowel 'U' or the vowel sound 'ooo' for a high note for example, its very difficult.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“No one holds the power. Just because they might give you a bit of money every now and then doesn't mean that they have the right to change what you do.”
“She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.”
“Cruelty towards animals and child abuse make me feel vulnerable. I wish there was more I could do. I try to spread positive messages through my social media.”
“If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.”

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