"Hearing the Beastie Boys speak out against sexism made me feel like if these men who had once sung about getting girls to 'do the laundry' and 'clean up my room' could understand, maybe the rest of the world would follow suit. It made me hopeful in the best way."

-- Jessica Valenti

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“In our society, real power does not happen to lie in the political system, it lies in the private economy: thatâ€™s where the decisions are made about whatâ€™s produced, how much is produced, whatâ€™s consumed, where investment takes place, who has jobs, who controls the resources, and so on and so forth. And as long as that remains the case, changes inside the political system can make some difference-I donâ€™t want to say itâ€™s zero-but the differences are going to be very slight.”
“It is clear to me that the financial sector, including CNBC, loves central banks”
“As to the strong likeness between General Hamilton and Dr. Stevens, Mr. Yard could give no account; altho' it seemed apparent that he thought them near of kin. In cases of this sort, the possibility of kindred blood gives rise to surmises, or strong suspicions, of which no proof is attainable.”
“There are times with your friends when you just have to put their whole mess out of your mind for a while.”
“It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.”
“Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn. Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernutrition - the kind most common among poor people in America - can do it.”
“We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.”

Source : Tracy Letts (2010). “August”, p.154, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.”

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