"Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty. You came not in the world without our pain, Make that a bar against your cruelty; Your fault being greater, why should you disdain Our being your equals, free from tyranny?"

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Source : 1611 Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's Apology in Defense of Women'.

Emilia Lanier

#Pain Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Bars Quotes

“The last 10 to 20 years you’d think that it has been all about VCs making money, because that’s all we hear about. But really it is all about VCs failing and failing to return capital and being f**king idiots. VCs are stupid. They are absolutely stupid. Does anyone want to challenge that statement? Does anyone think that VCs are not stupid?”

Source : "Dave McClure is ripping VCs again: They’re f***ing arrogant and stupid a**holes" By John Cook, www.geekwire.com. August 22, 2012.
“I think one of the biggest scams in law enforcement is the monitor.”
“...as if someone had thrown a hand grenade into the middle of a teddy bear orgy and the only survivors had had their fur blown off.”
“And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why!”

Source : "Song: Cornish patriotic song". 1824.
“All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill siblings. When something terrible happens, you discover all of the sudden that you have a new set of relatives, people with whom you can speak in the shorthand of cousins.”
“Did you hotwire this car?" I then rephrased my question. "Did you STEAL this car?”
“Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face.”
“When women start to bond over their sexuality, it's very similar to the way that men bond over their sexuality in sports. Men bond over their sexual prowess - their strength, their agility, their power. Women bond over their undulation, their curves, their sensuality - things that are innately feminine. Once you do that, there is no turning back.”

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