"... You can't start with a democracy. You have to work up through stuff like tyranny and monarchy first. That way people are so relived when they get to democracy that they hang on to it."
John Steinbeck
"Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities."
Evelyn Glennie
"I have learned through repeated experiences that in order to heal, I MUST forgive. The forgiveness is not for the transgressor. The forgiveness is for ME."
Sharon E. Rainey
"Even though the Judge would charge the jury that they should listen to all the evidence before they made up their minds, the chances were likely that 100% of them will have already decided if William was guilty or not before the trial was over."
Kenneth Eade
"He who wars against the arts, wars not against nations, but against all mankind."
Arthur Urbane Dilley
"So prodigal was I of youth Forgetting I was young I worshipped dead men for their strength Forgetting I was strong."
Vita Sackville-West
"When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do."
Sarah Kay
"I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness."
Graham Hancock
"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
Anonymous
"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
Albert Einstein
"It is values that dictate your responses."
Sunday Adelaja
"Natural science in England, as Darwin already knew to his cost, was still the purview of Christian scholars. But here was a question that Darwin found compelling: if God had created all the creatures of the world, what possible reason could there be for the variations found in the Galápagos?"
Jonathan Clements
"I fail to see how turning the subject over like compost can do anything except raise its stink."
Sonya Hartnett
"A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat."
Hugh MacLennan
"It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition."
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