"When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is."

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Source : Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.97

Charlotte Lennox

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“Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.”
“But she had to know words. She had to know everything.”

Source : Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Morning Gift”, p.5, Pan Macmillan
“That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else.”
“The Sacred isn't housed in a building or worn around your neck or something in the sky. The Sacred is the here and now we reside in, all breathing the same air, all imbibing the same water and made of the same earth with 'the life force' flowing through all living things.”
“We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.”

Source : Speech to a Joint Session of Congress on Health Care Reform, delivered 9 September 2009
“Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.”
“An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.”
“Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.”

Source : Feisal Abdul Rauf (2012). “Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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