"Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds."

-- John Leo

#America Quotes #Europe Quotes #People Quotes

“There is nothing positive about being fat. And there is nothing positive about loving yourself. We all need to conform to society's expectations of who we are, because if we don't, who will? Life is more enjoyable when you are thin and pretty. I was never fat a day in my life and I never will.”
“Ronaldo is a unique player for all of his talent and his professionalism. He is a player who is extraordinarily consistent.”
“Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.”
“You tell me the truth. You tell me that my son died for oil. You tell me that my son died to make your friends rich. You tell me my son died to spread the cancer of Pax Americana, imperialism in the Middle East.”

Source : Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated
“The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.”

Source : Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.24, Library of Alexandria
“The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.”

Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.
“The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind.”
“Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of philosophy's pure essence, but the idea that philosophy is mixed up with everything else.”

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