#des

No man can be stronger than his destiny. ↗

— Mary Austin

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And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. ↗

— Russell Banks

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I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money. ↗

— Bjork

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The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London. ↗

— James W. Black

#came #chance #college #establish #foundation

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. ↗

— Josh Billings

#refute #silence

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. ↗

— Steven Biko

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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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