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Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

"The Beautiful Discomfort of John Ridley’s American Crime" by Wade Davis II, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2015.

Every moment in life is an act of faith

Paulo Coelho (2009). “Brida: A Novel”, p.17, Harper Collins

Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

"The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: Volume 3". Book by Jonathan Elliot, 1836.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

1893 Lord Illingworth. A Woman of No Importance, act 3.

Walk like you have three men walking behind you.

"Oscar de la Renta's Legacy" by Vanessa Friedman, www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2014.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

"The Presidential Papers (The Sixth Presidential Paper - A Kennedy Miscellany: An Impolite Interview)". Book by Norman Mailer, 1963.

Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.

Neville Cardus (2012). “Cardus on Cricket: A selection from the cricket writings of Sir Neville Cardus”, p.110, Souvenir Press

When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . .

Nelly Sachs (1967). “O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux