"The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother."

-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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“For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things will get better. For pessimists, there is no amount of happinessâ€”should such a thing as happiness even obtain for human beings except as a misconceptionâ€”that can compensate us for lifeâ€™s hurt.”
“Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if there are no books on biology in your library, and the library is never open, your drive is meaningless.”
“I heard a story about her once,' said James. 'She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked him to identify the emotion. He said he didn't know what the emotion was but it was the face people pulled just before he killed them.”

Source : Jon Ronson (2011). “The Psychopath Test”, p.10, Pan Macmillan
“In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.”
“As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.”
“Don't confuse what FEELS right, for what IS right.”
“all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.”

Source : Lady Isabel Burton (1875). “The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal”, p.3
“Adam Smith's uncritically enthusiastic modern disciples portray his invisible hand theory as saying that market forces reliably harness selfish individuals to serve the common good. That's often true, but as Darwin recognized clearly, many traits that serve the interests of individual animals make life more difficult for larger groups.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

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