"Democracy passes into despotism."

-- Plato

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“Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.”
“Commenting on the decisions of the Bowl Alliance regarding WAC teams: It's a step, no question. Obviously, it's not what any of us wanted, but it's at least a step. We can now say we're part of the Alliance. However, I hope it's not perceived that they bought us off and we're going to go away. It's not fair. It's not right; we still need to fight. We can't let them go away and hide. Other schools are taking a major share of the pot, and that's still a major sore point as far as I'm concerned. But at least this is a step, and better than what we had in the past.”
“You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.”
“As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.”
“I'm still going to enjoy my life off the pitch and I don't think that has interfered with my life on it. In still playing, my body does not allow me to do some of the stuff I did before. The reality is I can't do the two. But I will still go out for a meal and a glass of wine and smoke a cigarette if I feel like it.”
“An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.”
“Keep your eye on the main chance and don't stop to kick every barking dog.”
“Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather thanachievement has tended to keep them from great achievement. But it has also freed them from unreasonable expectations about the satisfactions that professional achievement brings.”

Source : Phyllis Rose (1991). “Never Say Goodbye: Essays”, Nan A. Talese

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