"the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians."

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Source : Ray Strachey, Eleanor Florence Rathbone (1936). “Our freedom and its results”

Eleanor Rathbone

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“You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.”

Source : John Connolly (2010). “The Gates: A Samuel Johnson Tale”, p.28, Simon and Schuster
“Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.”

Source : Said after studying the Ptolemaic system (attributed)
“It's easier for me to accept that I can't play anymore because I literally gave it all I got. That allows me to be a little bit more at peace.”

Source : Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com
“Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.”

Source : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.69, Profile Books
“An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call That bides the spheres become articulate.”
“My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.”
“Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.”

Source : "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.
“La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If you don't learn right from wrong early on, or if you don't learn manners when you are young, you will never learn them later.”

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