"It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body."

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Source : "Is weight the new race?" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2006.

Marilyn Wann

#Self Esteem Quotes #Home Quotes #Profound Quotes

“The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.”

Source : Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations”, p.5
“I think the more people you add on stage, the more locked it things become. Whereas fewer members on stage gets the audience to notice any small idiosyncrasy or unique moment that one of the three people onstage is having. It also means that mistakes are accentuated, but to good affect generally if you are that type of band.”

Source : Source: mousertime.blogspot.com
“Violence is the most elemental truth of life. It's the central shaper of history, the ultimate determiner of whether A or B is going to get his way.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“We wanted the book [Paper Girls] to feel to evoke the '80s, but not necessarily feel that it was drawn then.”
“I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“People call to keep me abreast of what's going on.”
“Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.”
“The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.”

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