"To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them."

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Source : Charles Palliser (2015). “Betrayals”, p.264, Hachette UK

Charles Palliser

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“If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.”
“Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that they will care for it. Through the simple act of planting a tree we can open their eyes to nature's beauty.”
“Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.”

Source : Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.36, Beacon Press
“At present scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using.”
“Even when other people donâ€™t expect a lot out of you,you have to take the initiative.”
“Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.”

Source : "Britain's intellectuals: leading thinkers have their say". www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.
“She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin' an' found her husband in bed with the milkman. With the milkman, honest to God. Well, apparently, from that day forward Jane was a feminist. An' I've noticed, she never takes milk in her tea.”

Source : "Shirley Valentine". Book by Willy Russell, 1986.
“Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.”

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