"I soon found law school an unmitigated bore."

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Constance Baker Motley

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“I intend to live forever, or die trying.”
“Senator Graham would have been very difficult to beat. He'd been governor for two terms. He's a U.S. Senator. He has a lot of friends; he's done a lot of favors to help a lot of people in Florida. So the fact that he's not running really does change the whole landscape in Florida.”
“I'm really demanding. No girl really wants just a guy. You want a prince, you want Jesus. So when he comes around and his name is, like, Steve, what are you supposed to do?”
“We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you. The tulip is a beautiful creation, with millions of atoms cooperating with each other to produce great beauty, but ask that tulip to talk about you, and it can't do it. It doesn't have those perceptive abilities. Wouldn't it be conceited to suggest that I had the abilities to describe the deity?”
“When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind.”

Source : William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1950). “The Art of Scientific Investigation”
“Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is a man indeed!”
“Chess is the art of analysis.”

Source : Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation
“Success and happiness are not destinations, they are exciting, never-ending journeys.”

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