"Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee."

-- Francis Quarles

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“It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.”
“The United States has adventured upon a great and noble experiment . . . of total separation of Church and State. . . . The offices of the Government are open alike to all. No tithes are levied to support an established Hierarchy, nor is the fallible judgment of man set up as the sure and infallible creed of faith. . . . Such is the great experiment which we have tried, and . . . our system of free government would be imperfect without it.”
“On the one hand the world is getting more integrated and we should not dismiss social values as "Western" when they are actually modern values. On the other hand, individual countries have their own history and their own evolution. Trade unions, for example, don't play the same role in China as they do in Europe or the US.”
“There is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental.”
“The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.”

Source : Hippocrates, Heraclitus (of Ephesus.), Paul Potter, Edward Theodore Withington (1959). “Hippocrates”
“Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.”
“My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.”
“The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.”

Source : Marita Golden (2011). “The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing”, p.5, Broadway Books

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