"Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce."

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Source : Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

Vilfredo Pareto

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“Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.”

Source : "DIVA TALK: Catching Up With Venice Star Jennifer Damiano". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. May 31, 2013.
“There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.”
“When you know better you do better.”
“I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated facts, of making seductive theories spring from them; but let us not forget to state, that the scythe of the reaper had cut the stalks before one had thought of uniting them into sheaves!”

Source : François Arago, Robert GRANT (F.R.A.S.), Baden Powell, William Henry SMYTH (Rear Admiral.) (1857). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant”, p.264
“A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction.”
“I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.”
“I am not at all sure we could ever reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians' present leadership. We shall have to wait for the next generation. The most we could expect is, perhaps, another interim agreement. A Palestinian state? A permanent settlement? I do not see that happening in the coming years.”

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