"The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have spent thousands of pounds in efforts to reform her, poets have written about her, essayists and orators have made her the subject of some of their most striking rhetoric; perhaps no class of people has been so much abused, and alternatively sentimentalized over as prostitutes have been but one thing they have never yet had, and that is simple legal justice."

-- Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

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“Yes to market economy, no to market society.”
“Generosity helps us make a concerted effort to keep the needs of others in the forefront of our thinking. Not for guilt's sake, but for the sake of being good stewards of the resources we have been privileged to manage.”
“Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?”

Source : In Mary Wollstonecraft 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792) ch. 7
“jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.”

Source : Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner
“Change,connectivity,and learning to live well with others and with Nature and her ways will be the features of the world when seen through the eye of Tao.”
“My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar.”
“There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or physics (mathematicians conceived of black holes long before astronomers actually found any), and allows more freedom of expression than poetry, art, or music (which depends heavily on properties of the physical universe). Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.”

Source : "A Mathematician's Lament" by Paul Lockhart, genius.com. January 1, 2002.
“I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.'”

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