"Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them."

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Dacia Maraini

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes

“Truth is not always injured by fiction.”

Source : Charlotte Lennox (1820). “The female Quixote; or, The adventures of Arabella”, p.261
“You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when asked what jazz is, 'If you got to ask, you ain't never gonna get to know.'”

Source : Ned Joel Block (2007). “Consciousness, function, and representation”, The MIT Press
“Hillary does nothing without careful calculation. She knows that politicians - provided they have real power - who bash entire industries tend to raise huge dollars from individuals in those industries. Certain types of politicians are drawn to this marketing technique because they think the 'bashing' also can be held up as proof that they are not being corrupted. This scheme is called 'putting the squeeze on.' Does that phrase remind you of anything?”
“So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about”
“Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.”
“I did not survive everything. No one ever does. Little pieces of you - sometimes the best of you - get lost in a little lie here, a little joke there. And of course, the aftereffect is the tiny sob - unseen, unheard, deeply felt.”
“We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.”
“I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton.”

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