"“Heredity isn’t everything; I’m myself, an individual. You aren’t your parents. You’re not your father, you are not your mother. But you are a little late realizing it.” She sat up straight. “So be yourself, Knothead, and have the courage to make your own mess of your life. Don’t imitate somebody else’s mess."

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"There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they …"

"It's a terrible, terrible thing to take a life. But at the same time, the people we were going after - thes…"

"The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men, — from mothers most of all, who ca…"

"I am often much vexed, and I feel great sorrow when I hear some people in this country say, that the slaves…"