"Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.”
“Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.”

Source : Eric Gill (1944). “It All Goes Together: Selected Essays”
“I balance my natural drive for speed and impact with a counterbalancing drive for significance, innovation and sustained customer intimacy. This involves slowing down and moving from transactive management, which focuses on speed, content, accuracy and productivity, to transformative leadership, which focuses on significance, context, authenticity and purpose. This critical shift requires constant diligence, discipline and practice.”
“Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.”

Source : "New Lamps for Old". Nine articles by Sri Aurobindo in the "Indu Prakash" (a Bombay daily newspaper), August 21, 1893.
“No one is ever quite as strong or as weak as you'd think.”
“Don't judge your running by your speed.”
“Family farmers are victims of public policy that gives preference to feeding animals over feeding people. This has encouraged the cheap grain policy of this nation and has made the beef cartel the biggest hog at the trough.”
“Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.”

Source : Jonathan Kellerman (2007). “Obsession: An Alex Delaware Novel”, p.43, Ballantine Books

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