"It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential."

-- Frances Wright

#Power Quotes #Race Quotes #Important Quotes

“Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.”
“Marathons are extraordinarily difficult, but if you've got the training under your belt, and if you can run smart, the races take care of themselves. When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.”
“Do stupid stuff and even stupider suff will happen to you.”
“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”

Source : Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.69, Macmillan
“I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.”
“It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.”

Source : Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.227
“One of the things that's exciting for me about this novel is that, to me, Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron were both, in certain regards, crypto-steampunk. They're both books that are interested in an alternate technological past that in fact didn't historically come to pass. If you were to ask me what my novels were about, I would say, well, these are novels about technology and how we relate to technology and what technology means.”
“there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.”

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