"I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without."

-- Anna Julia Cooper

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“Only the more uncompromising of the mystics still seek for knowledge in a silent land of absolute intuition, where the intellect finally lays down its conceptual tools, and rests from its pragmatic labors, while its works do not follow it, but are simply forgotten, and are as if they never had been.”

Source : Josiah Royce (1913). “The Problem of Christianity: The real world and the Christian ideas”
“Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.”
“We are not seeking to impose a recall.”
“You may be more prodigal of time than of money.”
“Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.”

Source : "Does Joe Sestak Have A Chance?" by Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. August 4, 2009.
“The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.”

Source : Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co
“Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.”
“I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.”

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