"Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?"

-- William Blake

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“Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. . . . If the next centennial does not find us a great nation . . . it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.”
“I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more... not average, but everyman about me.”
“A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union. He had learnt it at elementary school; at secondary school; at his sports club; at the Komsomol; at the university; at a folk dancing course; at the chess-club.”
“Many persons erroneously suppose that an author has always on hand an unlimited number of her own books; or that the publisher will kindly give her as many as she can want for herself and friends. This is by no means the case.”

Source : Eliza Leslie (1839). “The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies”, p.271
“Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.”

Source : "How Candice Swanepoel is Spending Valentine's Day". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. February 8, 2013.
“In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.”
“The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.”
“But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.”

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