"We can only love what we know."

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Source : Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) (1826). “A Legacy for Young Ladies: Consisting of Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse”, p.125

Anna Letitia Barbauld

“It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.”
“As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.”

Source : "Text of Hatfill's Statement", www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.
“We can't literally talk with everybody else on the planet or even with representatives of every group. But we can be in favor of the respectful exchange of ideas in ways that don't presuppose that all the right answers are on our own side. Still, we should all have moral bottom lines. Once genocide or torture begins the priority shifts from understanding to stopping it. One hope I have for the global conversation as instantiated in human rights treaties is that we are slowly coming to consensus on certain moral baselines.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“For so long I have lived on the edge of an invisible world. Sometimes I feel like the scattered debris left over after the personality has fallen out of the sky.”

Source : Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem (2008). “The Man on the Ceiling”, Wizards of the Coast Discoveries
“Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.”
“No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.”
“I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I know some gay people who are really wonderful people.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“To fly up to the sky and watch the earth is beautiful; to fly down to the earth and watch the sky is even more beautiful!”

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