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“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.”
Source : Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.187, Random House
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“As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.”
Source : "Peter Diamandis: The Future of Business Is Rosy". bigthink.com.
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“The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the feeling, picture, and ourselves are united in one mystery.”
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“The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but "playing" the voice like those instrumentalists.”
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“Who would you talk to? That is the first question for almost any startup that you need to answer. Who is my user and where am I going to find them?”
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“And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.”
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“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”
Source : Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.33
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“One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.”