"Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress."

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Source : Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.2, 谷月社

Emmeline Pankhurst

#Struggle Quotes #Men Quotes #Progress Quotes

“And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.”
“Nothing in this world is so marvelous as the transformation that a soul undergoes when the light of faith descends upon the light of reason.”

Source : William-Bernard Ullathorne (1880). “The Endowments of Man Considered in Their Relation with His Final End”
“I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.”
“I think the number of books published by Mr. Disney has nothing to do with whether or not he is bringing literature to children. That judgment has got to be based on quality rather than quantity. It's the same old problem that continually plagues American culture. I would rather have children playing their own games out of doors in the sunlight than getting the misrepresentation of literature as given by Walt Disney.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most of the rest of reality. It seems we make ourselves up as we go along.”
“As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.”
“Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure ... There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency.”
“I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry. I cried because you wouldn't let me speak. I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine. I shone because I thought you loved me...”

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