"Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man."

-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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“In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.”

Source : "The First Time David Morrissey Killed a Zombie". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 11, 2012.
“And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession little progress could have been made. Correspondence and succession, the two principles that permeate all mathematics - nay, all realms of exact thought - are woven into the very fabric of our number system.”

Source : Tobias Dantzig (1954). “Number, the Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-mathematician”
“To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?”
“You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I always wanted to be the strongest man on the field. Most of the time, they said I was lifting too much but I didn't believe in that at all.”

Source : Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. July 14, 2014.
“Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.”

Source : Osbert Lancaster (1975). “A cartoon history of architecture”, Harvard Common Pr
“The word stands for the body, but the symphony stands for the spirit.”
“My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.”

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