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161 " Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils. The unhappy man who has been treated as a brute animal, too frequently sinks beneath the common standard of the human species. The galling chains, that bind his body, do also fetter his intellectual faculties, and impair the social affections of his heart… To instruct, to advise, to qualify those, who have been restored to freedom, for the exercise and enjoyment of civil liberty… and to procure for their children an education calculated for their future situation in life; these are the great outlines of the annexed plan, which we have ad "

162 " We are fed ideas in small sound bites that are really just the conclusions of particular beliefs. We do not examine what underpins these sound bites. If the sound bites are presented by a source we are accustomed to accepting as true, there is a danger we will assimilate the conclusion without knowing, or caring, whether it is based on solid arguments and assumptions. "

163 " Life will throw hurtles in your path from time to time. And when it does, just remember one thing; God already taught you how to jump. Leap with confidence and if you have to look back, use your experiences as a source of strength. "

― William Davrick , Eight Seconds

164 " During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library... It was here that I found a source of knowledge and the means to acquire it by reading, a habit of learning which I still follow to this day. I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house. I soon graduated to biochemistry and tried to discover what gave flowers their distinctive colours. I made the (to me) astounding discovery that the pigments I extracted changed their colours when I changed the pH of the solution. "

― Sydney Brenner

165 " Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama. You put all you're hope and all your dreams and all your ideas about stuff into one human being. They're a human being they're going to let you down.

You can't make someone your hero because of something you read on the internet. The internet is not a source of information it is a source of disinformation. "

― Craig Ferguson

166 " It is strange how love is a source for power––can spur the desire to fight to the death, or to fight back from something that seems like death for long enough to write a coherent note––but also of weakness. "

― Beth Fantaskey , Jessica Rules the Dark Side (Jessica, #2)

167 " Right now I am like the unborn baby in the womb, knowing nothing except the comforting warmth of the amniotic fluid in which I swim, the comforting nourishment entering my body from a source I cannot see or understand. My whole being comes from an unseen, unknown nurturer. By that nurturer I am totally loved and protected, and that love is forever. It does not end when I am precipitated out of the safe waters of the womb into the unsafe world. It will. It end when I breathe my last, mortal breath. That love manifested itself joyously in the creation of the universe, became particular for us in Jesus, and will show itself most gloriously in the Second Coming. We need not fear. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , Miracle on 10th Street: And Other Christmas Writings

168 " Organizing one's life to respond to a threat one felt powerless about as a child can be a source of enormous inspiration. "

169 " For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating. "

― Karen Horney , Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

170 " Until that day at the dress department Lucie had been many things to me: a child, a source of comfort, a balm, an escape from myself; she was literally everything for me – but a woman. Our love in the physical sense of the word had proceeded no further than the kissing stage. And even the way she kissed was childish (I'd fallen in love with those kisses, long but chaste, with dry closed lips counting each other's fine striations as they touched in emotion).In short, until then I had felt tenderness for Lucie, but no sensual desire; I'd grown so accustomed to its absence that I wasn't even conscious of it; my relationship with Lucie seemed so beautiful that I could never have dreamed anything was missing. Everything fit so harmoniously together: Lucie, her monastically gray clothes, and my monastically chaste relation with her. "

― Milan Kundera , The Joke

171 " There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief. "

― Steven Erikson , Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)

172 " A school library is like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero. True, the superhero is more likely to be wearing a cardigan than a batsuit, but still... "

173 " Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are. "

― Malcolm Gladwell , The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

174 " A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas. "

175 " Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus. "

176 " Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage. "

177 " Nature has been for me for as long as I remember a source of solace inspiration adventure and delight a home a teacher a companion. "

178 " To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. "

179 " Renown is a source of toil and sorrow obscurity is a source of happiness. "

180 " Look well into thyself there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there. "