"If politics mean…the effort to secure through legislative action better conditions of life for the people, greater opportunities for our children and other people’s children…then it most assuredly is a woman’s job as much as it is a man’s job."

-- Irene Parlby

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“To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind's eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark.”

Source : Gilbert Ryle (2009). “The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.223, Routledge
“So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris”
“It is easy to underestimate how much there is a growing awareness that there is a deep sexism in politics, there is a deep sexism in the workplace generally in America and Donald Trump has come to signify that and Hillary Clinton has come to signify the women that have to work hard, prepare more, show up earlier and go home later, work twice as hard to get the same results as men do in the same game.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an atomic bombing, the vast majority around the world can only vaguely imagine such horror, and these days, John Hersey's Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth are all but forgotten. As predicted by the saying, 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,' the probability that nuclear weapons will be used and the danger of nuclear war are increasing.”
“Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.”
“Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.”
“I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.”
“I do the work with friends who are musicians as well. I'm working on a piece of music and I have an idea of who I want on the vocals, but I don't really have a list.”

Source : "DJ Paul Van Dyk is Back After A Five Year Break". Hollywood Life Interview, hollywoodlife.com. May 31, 2012.

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