"Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power."

-- Julius Charles Hare

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“I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.”
“A map, it is said, organizes wonder.”
“People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.”
“There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.”

Source : Ernest J. Gaines, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Pete Seeger (2000). “The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings”
“I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.”
“Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.”
“I am my own investigation territory.”
“While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.”

Source : Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

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