"The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world."

-- Shereen El Feki

#Egypt Quotes #Alive Quotes #World Quotes

“I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.”
“The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.”
“I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.”
“My saddest decision in football was leaving Paul Gascoigne out of the 1998 World Cup finals. But he wasn't fit enough and once that decision is made, as a manager and a group of players, you forget about who isn't there and focus on the job.”
“To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.”
“I rolled my eyes so far into the top of my head I almost fell over backward.”
“The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.”

Source : Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.228
“The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.”

Source : 1984 Stanley and the Women, ch.2.

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