"I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please."

-- Mother Jones

#Telling The Truth Quotes #Not Afraid Quotes #Please Quotes

“Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.”
“Iâ€™m so jealous,â€ she whispered, and he blinked. â€œOf what?â€ Her head fell back on the pillow, and she stared up at the ceiling with the saddest eyes heâ€™d ever seen. â€œYouâ€™re so alive, Lore. Thereâ€™s fire in you. A will to live, when all I want is to be done with this life.”
“Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.”
“I was just in Las Vegas, where prostitution is legal. Which is a relief because I live in Los Angeles, where it is mandatory.”
“When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain.”

Source : "Science Policy for the 21st Century". "Groks Science" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com.
“If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.”

Source : Gary Smalley (1996). “The Keys to Growing in Love”, Bbs Publishing Corporation
“Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity.”
“But still try, for who knows what is possible?”

Source : Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.476, Cambridge University Press

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