“Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.”
— Pete Townshend
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“It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.”
— Camille Paglia
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Category: women
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“There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.”
— Francis Jeffrey
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“American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.”
— Jack Kemp
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“This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.”
— Carter G. Woodson
Author: Carter G. Woodson
Category: leadership
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“All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.”
— Thomas J. Watson
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“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”
— Havelock Ellis
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“I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.”
— Herman Cain
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“If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.”
— Lao Tzu
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Category: knowledge
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“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.”
— Dolly Parton
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“Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.”
— Karen Armstrong
Author: Karen Armstrong
Category: technology
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