"We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the past as we are forced along; still adoring whatever is behind us. We insist upon worshipping 'the God of our fathers.' Why not the God of our children? Does eternity only stretch one way?"

-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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“Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House.”
“Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.”
“On our show, I've only reached out and touched about 55 guys. I think there's still about 40 million.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.”
“Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?”

Source : "May Doctors Help You to Die?". www.nybooks.com. October 11, 2012.
“I still don't like going to bed alone.”
“I have been especially fortunate for about 50 years in having two memory banks available-whenever I can't remember something I ask my wife, and thus I am able to draw on this auxiliary memory bank. Moreover, there is a second way In which I get ideas ... I listen carefully to what my wife says, and in this way I often get a good idea. I recommend to ... young people ... that you make a permanent acquisition of an auxiliary memory bank that you can become familiar with and draw upon throughout your lives.”
“Let them call it mischief; when it is past and prospered, it will be virtue.”

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