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I was born in Judaism, and have adhered to it through all my erratic career. Through that pure and simple religion I have found greatest comfort and blessing.

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There is a graveyard in my poor heart — dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.

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Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

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There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Adah Isaacs Menken

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Born: June 15, 1835
Died: August 10, 1868 (aged 33)
Bio: Adah Isaacs Menken was an American actress, painter and poet, the highest earning actress of her time. She was best known for her performance in the melodrama Mazeppa, with a climax that featured her apparently nude and riding a horse on stage.

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