"My wife, the star I steer by."

-- David McCullough

#Marriage Quotes #Stars Quotes #Wife Quotes

“Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.”

Source : "Nobel Winner's Theories Raise Uproar in Berkeley / Geneticist's views strike many as racist, sexist" by Tom Abate, www.sfgate.com. November 13, 2000.
“Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.”
“Every relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means. In such a relationship, dominator and dominated alike are reduced to things- the former dehumanized by an excess of power, the latter by a lack of it. And things cannot love.”
“I have two children. They're grown children. I don't think they particularly enjoy it when I'm in a dangerous situation, but they also understand that this is something I feel strongly about. It's what I've done my whole life.”

Source : "Women Reporters Face Added Risks In Conflict Zones". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 22, 2011.
“People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.”

Source : Lady Isabel Burton (1875). “The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal”, p.262
“I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.”
“What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”
“I'm living life right now, maine and this what Imma do til it's over, til it's over.. but it's far from over.”

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