"I am immortal till my work is accomplished"

-- David Livingstone

#Missionary Quotes #Accomplished Quotes #Immortal Quotes

“Our emotions are made by God, yet they too must bow before Him”
“We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.”

Source : "Seraphina". Book by Rachel Hartman, 2012.
“Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.”
“If I wanted your opinion, I'd slap it outta ya.”
“There's no way you can use water to collect waste in zero gravity. So, basically, our toilet on shuttle operations is a vacuum cleaner. The urinal looks like a Shop-Vac hose. It has different-shaped fronts on it for males and females to use. The urine is sucked down that hose and goes into a tank.”
“Generosity is the vanity of giving.”
“I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.”
“Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political economy, in a matrix of interests and knowledge. It is not a free-swinging phenomenon like a balloon without moorings. It is not produced in a vacuum and, being creative, it does not work in a vacuum. Nurtured on things experienced and things known, it reaches out toward the unknown like a flower on a stalk growing out of the soil.”

Source : Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.168, Feminist Press at CUNY

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