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“This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants,”
Source : "How Amy Poehler and Tina Fey made the Golden Globes the first feminist film awards ceremony" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2015.
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“I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.”
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“I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.”
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“In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed, they will be receding faster than the speed of light, so detection will be impossible. Future civilizations will discover science and all its laws, and never know about other galaxies or the cosmic background radiation. They will inevitably come to the wrong conclusion about the universe......We live in a special time, the only time, where we can observationally verify that we live in a special time.”
Source : YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009", www.youtube.com. October 21, 2009.
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“To stumble twice against the same stone is a Proverbsial disgrace.”
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“The simple act of caring is heroic.”
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“I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it.”
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“Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.”