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I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a mile of me. What cared my owners for that? he was merely a piece of property. Moreover, they thought he had spoiled his children, by teaching them to feel that they were human beings. This was blasphemous doctrine for a slave to teach; presumptuous in him, and dangerous to the masters. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way. — James Dyson

The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see - and to see we have only to look. — Giovanni Giocondo

A martial art that has no rules is nothing but violence. — Kenji Tomiki

Everyone hurts us. If we stopped loving them because of pain, we'd never love anyone. — Courtney C. Stevens

I am always suspicious of those who impose 'rules' on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning, and every parent responds to a particular child, not some generalized infant or youngster. — Siri Hustvedt

A very disturbing feature of overconfidence is that it often appears to be poorly associated with knowledge - that is, the more ignorant the individual, the more confident he or she maybe. — Robert Trivers

To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. — Paulo Coelho

They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the strange mysterious depths of her tranquillity. — Edith Wharton

As far as the Lord is concerned, the time to stand is in the darkest moment. It is when everything seems hopeless, when there appears no way out, when God alone can deliver. — David Wilkerson

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much ... — Paula Nelson

A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape. — Albert Camus

I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader. — Gary Ross

Sometimes, she thought, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all. — Matthew Thomas

In some ways, it's my rage that keeps me going, — Etta James