"When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life."

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Source : "Whitney Houston's Words: 20 Memorable Quotes From the Late Pop Icon", abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2012.

Whitney Houston

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“The apartment was entirely, was only, for her: a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her not only in themselves, their tender spines, but in the moments or periods they evokedâ€¦ Her self, then, was represented in her books; her times in her records; and the rest of the room she thought of as a pure, blank slate.”

Source : FaceBook post by Claire Messud from Aug 23, 2012
“They [policemen] are in a profession that if you do the job incorrectly, or proceeding incorrectly, it's over for you because there isn't any supporter backup. If you make a mistake as a plumber, you know, you fix it and everything goes on or you get sued. But if you make a mistake as a cop, you are more infamous than Jesse James, everything's over.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“He that would speak Divine things in a language which living men of to-day can comprehend, must keep up with the researches and discoveries of men who study nature, and put her words into the speech of the present.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 414, 1895.
“Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture. Because Neanderthal men who still rode the landscape parallel to the people who did these paintings didn't have culture. There's no evidence of culture, no symbolic depiction, no evidence of music, no evidence of sculptures, no evidence of religious beliefs.”
“There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.”

Source : "KD Lang: 'I get completely drawn in'" by KD Lang, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2009.
“If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.”

Source : Marva Collins (1992). “Ordinary Children, Extraordinary Teachers”, p.170, Hampton Roads Publishing
“Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be”
“The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.”

Source : Samuel George Morton, George Combe (1839). “Crania Americana; Or, A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America: To which is Prefixed an Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species”, p.87, Philadelphia : J. Dobson ; London : Simpkin, Marshall

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