Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I am healthy and happy.
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When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I look at people for their souls, and I can see myself falling in love with anyone after getting to know them and developing a relationship.
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I've become a lot more relaxed about my career, but maybe that's a part of growing up. I realise there are things I hold dear and value, aside from professional achievements.
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I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
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Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?
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I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
