"Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality."

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Source : Pratibha Patil's Speech on the Eve of Demitting Office of the President, pib.nic.in. July 24, 2012.

Pratibha Patil

#Distance Quotes #Goal Quotes #Long Quotes

“Do your best, and be a little better than you are.”
“It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.”
“I'm not crying about anything or anyone in particular. The life I live I created for myself, and I wouldn't want it any different. I cry because in the universe there is something as beautiful as Kremer playing the Brains violin concerto.”
“Besides, everywhere, life is getting longer, marriages fall apart, divorce is a reality that happens even where the law doesn't sanction it. It remains the tradition that women are trusted to take care of the children.”
“I've lived my life in a way that I feel would be an example to young women and I've always given my best in everything I've tried.”
“For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.”

Source : Lars Svendsen (2005). “A Philosophy of Boredom”, p.116, Reaktion Books
“Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.”
“My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.”

Source : Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.35, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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