– Dr. Dre, introducing N.W.A's 1988 album Straight Outta Compton.
On women in the entertainment industry http://reelladies.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/reel-lady-masiela-lusha/
Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
The Modern Prince and other Writings, quoting a letter to his sister
“Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.”
First lines, Ch. 1
The Crimson Petal and the White (2002)
Context: Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them. This city I am bringing you to is vast and intricate, and you have not been here before. You may imagine, from other stories you've read, that you know it well, but those stories flattered you, welcoming you as a friend, treating you as if you belonged. The truth is that you are an alien from another time and place altogether.
“Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything”
An Alien God http://lesswrong.com/lw/kr/an_alien_god/ (November 2007)
On Beau Nash's Picture at full length between the Busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope., in Dyce, Specimens of British Poetesses. This epigram is generally ascribed to Chesterfield. See Campbell, English Poets, note, p. 521. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.”
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 13; variant with modernized spelling: Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
“A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness …”
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 7
