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For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game.: Grantland Rice, "Alumunus Football," Only the Brave and Other Poems, p. 144 (1941)
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That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?: Sojourner Truth (1797 - 1883), Women's Convention, Akron Ohio, 1851
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.: Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), "Eloisa to Abelard"
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.: John Locke (1632 - 1704)
Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.: Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?": Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.: L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986), Book: Dianetics 55
Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.: L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986)
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