"In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?"

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Source : Marlene Dietrich (1962). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC.”

Marlene Dietrich

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“Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.”
“As for the work ethic, I'm just the kind of guy who takes what he does seriously. I never missed a day of school, I've rarely missed work and I played all those straight games; my streak only ended when I broke my cheekbone.”

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“An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty. ... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.”
“We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded as the home base for inspired musical talent.”
“The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.”
“When do any of us ever do enough?”
“I ignore [Barack Obama] like I ignore [Louis ] Farrakhan.”
“There is more suspense, more dramatic torque, in one page of [Nathaniel] Hawthorne's heart-racked ruminations onthe Christian consciencethaninall Demi Moore's woodland gallops and horizontal barn dancing.”

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