"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors."

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Source : "The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind". Book by Simone Veil, part 2: Uprootedness, chapter 1: Uprootedness in the Towns, 2002.

Simone Veil

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“When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.”

Source : Eve Ensler (2001). “The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition”, p.32, Villard
“I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.”
“The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.”
“I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.”
“I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.”
“A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.”
“Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.”
“It is a sin of the soul to force young people into opinions ... but it is culpable neglect not to impel young people into experiences.”

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