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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.


Xenophon


#appointed #aristocracy #complied #considered #government

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.


Ethel Smyth


#suffragist #equality

Their daughter scrunched up her hands and legs, waving them wildly in the air. He opened his palm, allowing the babe to kick his hand. "Is she like a puppy?" Constance choked. "What!" He looked up. "Will she get her spots later?" Laughter bubbled up from within her as she playfully whacked him on the shoulder. "Yes. Yes, I'm afraid she will. As soon as the sun touches her skin, the freckles will appear." A delicious two-dimple grin spread across his face. "Good. I find I'm rather partial to freckled redheads.


Deeanne Gist


#bride #brides #christian #christian-romance #connie

Thought you didn't like red hair." One of Drew's dimples kicked in as he draped an arm about Grandma's shoulder. "Must have me confused with someone else, but I'm not surprised. Seems to happen to most of the older set at some point or other.


Deeanne Gist


#bride #brides #christian #christian-romance #connie

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.


Max McKeown


#leadership #strategist #strategy #leadership

I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.


Temple Grandin


#autism #oliver-sacks #life

For those of us interested in, and seeking spiritual wisdom, this book (Waiting to Live by Dr. Asa Don Brown) is one that is a 'must read'! It is so well written and one that will serve well for individuals across all walks of life, as well as, a resource for professionals. The materials herein is a work that obviously reflects the author's personal spiritual journey and wellness as well as professional excellence, driven also by a sincere caring for fellow humans, an uncommon combination in the area of 'self-help' books.


Eunice Johannson


#canadian #dr-asa-don-brown #psychologist #waiting-to-live #life

HATE is the shortest of human emotions, it is stronger than love, more compelling than lust. Page 30. THE SCALPEL – GAME BENEATH (www.hsrissam.com


H.S. Rissam


#cardiac-surgeon #cardiologist #echocardiolography #fiction #fiction-novel

LOVE is the most incendiary element ever known, once it sparks the heart, the flame is inextinguishable.


H.S. Rissam


#cardiac-surgeon #cardiologist #echocardiolography #fiction #fiction-novel

Look, I don't know what you are, but you're more than a geologist, if you are one at all. I've met lots of geologists on different projects like this, and they're all tiny sunburned men with fetishes for geodes. They wear floppy hats and carry baggies for soil samples around with them. ... And geologists don't make rocks disappear like you did the other night. They keep them and build little shrines to them.


Kevin Hearne


#geologist #geologists #geology #science #scientists