"To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack."

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Source : james fitzjames stephen (1873). “liberty, equality, fraternity”, p.235

James Fitzjames Stephen

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“Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated "heavily indebted poor country," with little legal ability to control its economic future: Everything is for sale. And once Nicaraguans decide to cash in and sell their houses or farms, they have to look far inland for anything affordable.”
“I love 'Wild 'N Out' so much - one, because it's my baby, but also I get to see others succeed and go on to lead their own careers.”
“i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him to expect perfection. he taught me all i needed to know.”
“To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.”
“. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.”
“A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at least to detach it from the background of universal delusion, is triumphing almost everywhere.”
“In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.”
“It's fun to be a woman. It's fun to flirt and wear makeup and have boobs”

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