"Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself."

--

Robert Schumann

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“We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.”

Source : Susie Orbach (1997). “Fat is a Feminist Issue: The Anti-diet Guide for Women”, Bbs Publishing Corporation
“Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?”

Source : "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 281, 1991.
“I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.”
“Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.”
“We were having tea with my mother-in-law the other day and out of the blue she said, "I've decided I want to be cremated." I said, "Alright, get your coat."”
“There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.”
“I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.”
“Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.”

Source : 'Dreamers' (1918)

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