"It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It should be stopped. It is simply absurd that, with our modern science, painless childbirth does not exist as a matter of course.... I tremble with indignation when I think ofthe unspeakable egotism and blindness of men of science who permit such atrocities when they can be remedied."

-- Isadora Duncan

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Bears Quotes

“Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love, Dad.”
“All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?”
“Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.”
“I'm not left-wing, or right-wing. With only one wing I couldn't fly, and I just couldn't have that.”
“As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.”
“I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.”
“I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.”

Source : "Fool.com: Doing Hard Time With Arthur Levitt [Special]". The Motley Fool Radio Show, www.fool.com. July 09, 2002.
“There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour. It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.”

Source : George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.140, Dell

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