"Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex."

-- Karl Marx

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“But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some special sin than when one keeps on in the selfish, matter-of-fact prudence of minding one's own business, and that alone?”
“Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.”
“The leader’s (Jeff Denson’s) superb bowing.. showcasing Denson’s haunting vocals”
“But I think what we're coming to grips with is the fact that we actually have a mercenary Army, and it doesn't have a nice ring to it. We call it 'volunteers', but we're basically paying people to serve their country. And if you're going to pay people and have a mercenary Army, you're going to have to pay the market rate. And so the bounties are going upâ€”more money for tuition, higher enlistment bonusesâ€”and I think it's appropriate.”
“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
“. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.”
“I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun came up on the way, and the swamp maples and dogwood glowed crimson and orange and the stone walls and cornfields sparkled with ***** frost; the air was keen and clear and full of promise. I knew something was going to happen.”

Source : Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.108, Sheba Blake Publishing
“The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.”

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