"There is a sound reason why one and a half billion dollars are spent for cosmetics in your country every year, and only half that sum for education: There are no naturally pretty girls in the United States."

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Source : Elizabeth Hawes (1948). “Anything But Love: A Complete Digest of the Rules of Feminine Behavior from Birth to Death ...”

Elizabeth Hawes

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“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”
“The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.”
“Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else's version of themselves--to anyone else's version! Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country!”
“If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.”
“I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.”
“You can be deeply non-serious and still focused, disciplined, and on task.”

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“I love standing under a steaming shower when I'm tired in the morning. I don't really get a chance for baths.”
“The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has. To condemn large numbers of them to unemployment, to deprive the Treasury of their tax contributions and to force them to live on unemployment at public expense is the most expensive luxury any society ever chose to buy.”

Source : The AFL-CIO American Federationist, Vols. 84-86, p. 4, 1977.

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