"Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it."

-- Adrian Rogers

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“It is not enough to have the courage of your convictions, you must also have the courage to have your convictions challenged.”

Source : Christopher Phillips (2002). “Socrates Café: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy”, p.9, James Clarke & Co.
“The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I have been a disappointed woman.... I was disappointed when I came to seek a profession worthy an immortal being--every employment was closed to me, except those of the teacher, the seamstress, and the housekeeper. In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.”

Source : Remark at a National Woman's Rights Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1855. "Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings" by Miriam Schnier, 1972.
“It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.”

Source : "Manifesto" by Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb in New York Times, June 13, 1943.
“From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice.”
“I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to play now.”
“I havenâ€™t been right all year. I guess, you know, when you donâ€™t feel good, and you still get hits, thatâ€™s when you know you are a bad man.”
“I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.”

Source : "Battlestar Galactica's James Callis". Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2008.
“I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.”

Source : "An independent Scotland could not pay welfare bill, says Iain Duncan Smith". www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2012.

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