";Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?"

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“Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.”

“The world laughs at another man's pain.”

“Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.”

“Virtue lies in the middle ground.”

“No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light.”

“Truth does not need to borrow garments from error.”

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Journalism1941–2006

#leadership

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— Paula Modersohn-Becker

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