"For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works."

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Annia Ciezadlo

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“Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.”

Source : Miles Franklin (1909). “Some everyday folk and dawn”
“It isn’t a matter of getting the body you want, it’s a matter of doing the most you can with the body you have.”

Source : John Bingham (2002). “No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running”, p.53, Rodale
“We cannot reform our forefathers.”
“My pregnancy was amazing. I was happy that whole time, I felt good, I had energy, I was like Superwoman. I wish I could feel like that for the rest of my life, that's how fantastic it was.”
“Nobody thinks quotas are a great win for women - the win would be removing the discrimination and inequality that creates under-representation in the first place. But in the short term, alongside other measures, they can be an effective way to make progress happen faster.”
“It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.”
“It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.”

Source : Alfred Marshall (1997). “Principles of Economics”
“My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.”

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