"The Queen Seeker was back!"

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Maria V. Snyder

“I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman.”
“Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.”

Source : Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”
“Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.”
“I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.”
“When you're spending that much time by yourself in your car looking at landscapes, it's desolate. Most of the other people around you are invisible in their own cars. You're driving past houses where maybe once in a while somebody is out, but that's about it. So I was interested in that aesthetic and I decided I wanted to write an apocalyptic narrative, but the more I thought of it, it seemed bizarre and untenable to me to pick one, so I just didn't.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.”
“Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Saddam Hussein will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great honour and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts.”
“Why do magazines do this to women? It's all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women don't feel like they're good enough, guess what? Men win. That's how they keep us down.”

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