"We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another."

-- Saint Basil

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“I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.”
“I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.”
“Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.”
“The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.”
“The misnamed "feminine" woman, so admired by her creator, man the woman who is acquiescent in her inferiority and who has swallowed man's image of her as his ordained helpmate and no more is in reality the "masculine" woman. The truly feminine woman "cannot help burning with that inner rage that comes from having to identify with her exploiter's negative image of her," and having to conform to her persecutor's idea of femininity and its man-decreed limitations.”

Source : "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 22: "Woman in the Aquarian Age", 1971.
“May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.”

Source : Letter to Henry Clay (11 November 1844); as quoted in "Presidential Wit from Washington to Johnson" edited by Bill Adler, 1966.
“Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks are racists, they can find reasons to justify their own oppression ofâ€™ black people.”

Source : James H. Cone “Black Theology and Black Power”, Orbis Books
“Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you.”

Source : "Weather" by Eddie Mair, www.bbc.co.uk. September 22, 2006.

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