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“Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you”
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“One immense old lady has a family of lively young crocodiles running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The heavy musky smell they give off is most repulsive, but we do not rise up and make a row about this, because we feel hopelessly in the wrong in intruding into these family scenes uninvited ...”
Source : Mary Kingsley (2010). “Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons”, p.244, Cambridge University Press
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“You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.”
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“But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.”
Source : "Girl's Power Wows Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. June 19, 2006.
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“The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets To rise, ascend, and culminate above Eternity's horizon evermore.”
Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
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“A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.”
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“The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.”
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“The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure.”