"We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own."
-Maria Mitchell
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"I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.“
-Maria Mitchell
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"I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men."
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"We especially need imagination in science."
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"It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good."
-Maria Mitchell
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"Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God."
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"The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!"
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"But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm."
-Algernon H. Blackwood
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"Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone."
-John Buchanan Robinson
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-Michael Chertoff
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"You are forever alone."
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"I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing."
-Jonathan Coe
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"For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe."
-John Buchanan Robinson
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