"God holds with the strong."

-- Giuseppe Mazzini

#Courage Quotes #Strong Quotes

“The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.”
“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.”
“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”
“The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.”
“Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry...”

Source : Ned Sublette (2008). “The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square”, p.229, Chicago Review Press
“Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely: You'll hear their feet Beating out and beating out a - You think It's a happy beat? Listen to it closely: Ain't you heard something underneath like a - What did I say? Sure, I'm happy! Take it away! Dream Boogie Hey, pop! Re-bop! Mop! Y-e-a-h!”
“Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.”
“Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.”

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