"Nudity quickly becomes unremarkable when generally practiced."

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Source : Martha C. Nussbaum (2009). “Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law”, p.303, Princeton University Press

Martha C. Nussbaum

“Some people use things; they destroy. You're a creator, a builder.”
“The church is the gospel made visible.”
“Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.”

Source : "Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come". Rajendra K. Pachauri's speech at the news conference during the presentation of the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Yokohama, Japan, www.nytimes.com. March 31, 2014.
“Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. August 16, 2005.
“A leader has to keep saying the same things over and over again.”
“Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story. And in the absence of other narratives, it becomes the flagpole that the family hangs its identity from.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir”, p.93, Granta Books
“There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.”
“Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to follow.”

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