"Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging the affections and enlarging the understanding, that the heart can be meliorated or principles be formed; for like a bow forcibly bent, the mind recoils from oppression with elastic power."

-- Mary Hays

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“She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.”
“You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.”
“He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.”
“Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them.”

Source : "Stacy London Looks Back on Her Style". Interview with Julie Miller, www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2010.
“Christendom never came from an unbroken grave. It would have been buried in that grave, as Judas thought it was going to be, and as the Jews thought it was going to be, except there had been a resurrection from the dead. Then you can explain Christendom, churches, and literatures, if Christ rose again; but otherwise they cannot be explained at all. Our whole civilization rests on the broken Cross of the Master, and it is incredible that a civilization like this, in a world advancing steadily for eighteen centuries, has been founded on a lie.”
“Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.”

Source : Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.65, Springer
“The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.”
“As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.”

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