"I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong."

-- John Quincy Adams

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“Training with the equipment and protocols at Athletic Republic really helped me improve my speed and first-step explosiveness.”
“It is the fear of death--24/7 in every shade of hospital white and doomsday black--that sells the pharmaceutical, political, financial, film, and food product promising to make good the wish to live forever.”
“There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing”
“I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.”

Source : Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Take Root Media
“Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is”
“What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.”
“It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons.”
“If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.”

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