"Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do?...I have this inclination to study and if it is evil I am not the one who formed me thus - I was born with it and with it I shall die."

-- Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz

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“When people are not given an option by some secret scoring system, it's very hard to complain, so they often don't even know that they've been victimized.”

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“The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.”
“Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of a cobweb in the rain represent a decisive moment? The exposure time was probably three or four minutes. That's a pretty long moment. I would say the decisive moment in that case was the moment in which I saw this thing and decided I wanted to photograph it.”
“I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed.”
“Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others, prudence, and so on, but there is nothing special about sex in this respect, for the same could be said of decisions about driving a car. (In fact, the moral issues raised by driving a car, both from an environmental and from a safety point of view, are much more serious than those raised by sex.)”
“Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.”

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“I'm very sceptical about the prospects for 'big' environmental causes - 'saving the planet', halving the world's population, ending the exploitation of animals, and so on - but a person can ask him- or herself how he or she personally may exercise compassion or humility towards animals, vegetal life and so on.”
“It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.”

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