"By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy."

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Source : George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.75

George Bancroft

#Respect Quotes #Hair Quotes #Envy Quotes

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“The choices that women make have huge impact on families, on communities and on nations. Being able to provide an enabling environment for them to exercise their rights and make choices in their lives is crucial. It is at the heart of human development!”
“We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.”
“Every woman's innate ability to let anything go.”
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“A highly promising new artist and I look forward to seeing Natalie McCool perform at major festivals and concerts in the future”
“Getting it off the ground is one thing because it has to do with finding the proper people and the financing, but finding the subject is another thing and this is always for me the most difficult part.”
“That's what I mean by this sense of erasure. You're inside some event or spectacle and you know you're complicit in it, but there really is no external.”

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