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“I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you marry within a society that remains patriarchal, no matter how alternative you want to be within your unit, there is still a culture outside you that will impose many, many values on you whether you want them to or not.”
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“We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.”
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“Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.”
Source : Chester Irving Barnard (1968). “The Functions of the Executive”, p.5, Harvard University Press
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“It is not good enough to do what the law says. We need to be in the forefront of these [social responsibility] issues.”
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“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”
Source : Ernst Cassirer, Maureen Lukay (2006). “An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture”, Meiner Verlag
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“A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.”
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“That's great. I'm 100 years old and people are still interested.”