“I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.”
— Harriet Tubman
Author: Harriet Tubman
Category: time
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“No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Category: history
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“My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.”
— Tom Hanks
Author: Tom Hanks
Category: change
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“Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.”
— Camille Paglia
Author: Camille Paglia
Category: marriage
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