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This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.


Thomas Jefferson


#learning #university-of-virginia #uva #education

But the life of a Willa Cather, a Lillian Helman, and Virginia Woolf - - - would it not be a series of rapid ascents and probing descents into shades and meanings — into more people, ideas and conceptions? Would it not be in color, rather than black-and-white, or more gray? I think it would. And thus, I not being them, could try to be more like them: to listen, observe, and feel, and try to live more fully.


Sylvia Plath


#willa-cather #life

I was born in Boston, but then I went down to Virginia. We spent a little time in Maryland, and then were in Virginia by the time I was seven. What struck me the most was that my mother thought that she had gone to the middle of nowhere, and we would still drive four hours for her to get her hair cut in Washington, D.C.


Connie Britton


#boston #by the time #cut #down #drive

I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock.


Connie Britton


#country #grew #i #interested #least

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.


Rita Mae Brown


#bisexual #further #go #i #must

I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia.


George Rogers Clark


#become #clark #commonwealth #george #i

Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread!


George Rogers Clark


#damn #gave #her #i #me

I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.


Jennifer Garner


#felt #hollywood #i #island #just

On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first.


Morgan Griffith


#been #except #first #most #things

No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.


Tim Kaine


#couple #couples #married #married couple #other