"It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous."

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Source : Michael Faraday (1859). “Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics”, p.474

Michael Faraday

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“There are three stories that are foundational to the Islamic narrative in which women, and in two of the three cases, single women, are not just part of the story. They're at the very center of the story. Yet, that is not something that you would imagine to be true if you survey the Muslim world from the outside or from the inside. Part of the reason is that we don't really take our text seriously. We don't take our stories seriously. We're almost afraid of thinking complicated thoughts.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thouÂsand men.”

Source : "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. V, 1938.
“Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.”
“So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world”
“Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.”

Source : Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.156, SUNY Press
“Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans.”

Source : Steve Adolph, Alistair Cockburn, Paul Bramble, Andy Pols (2003). “Patterns for Effective Use Cases”, p.18, Addison-Wesley Professional
“Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. Itâ€™s like network television. Iâ€™m your local cable access station.”
“That has always been it for me: family first.”

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