"I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them."

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Florence Griffith Joyner

#Believe Quotes #Taken Quotes #Drug Quotes

“We are not a nation, but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign states.”

Source : To Oliver Dyer, January 1, 1849.
“Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!”

Source : 'Miscellania' (1653)
“You're in a bad mood,' Skulduggery said. 'I understand. I do. You're saying things that you don't really mean. It's OK.' 'I'll kill you both.' 'Hurtful things said in the heat of the moment. We're not going to hold it against you, Bison. We're all friends here.' Valkyrie nodded. 'We love you Bison.' 'We do,' Skulduggery agreed. 'You're our favourite Necromancer. You're the cuddly one.' 'Shut up,' Dragonclaw said. 'Both of you just shut up.”
“Savagery was a word that Westerners used to, again, to consciously differentiate them from non-Westerners, to assert that superiority, that cultural superiority. It goes back to the British Empire, and again, you know, what was the purpose of the British Empire? To bring civilization to the savage no matter where they were, whether it was India or Asia or Australia or whatever. It's that civilizing mission that characterizes so much of the history of Western colonialism.”
“Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool to learn how to master the same tricks... Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard. Master these thoroughly, and the rest will follow. What one fool can do, another can.”

Source : Silvanus P. Thompson (1914). “Calculus Made Easy: Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus”
“Within us there is the capacity of being anyone or anything”
“Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.”
“Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.”

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