"Researchers have been asking a basic question of young people. Should men be allowed to beat their wives? How you answer that question may depend on where you live. U.N. researchers put that question to adolescent girls in India and Pakistan and 53 percent - a majority of girls - said yes, wife beating is justifiable even if it's for refusing sex."

-- Steve Inskeep

#Girl Quotes #Sex Quotes #Men Quotes

“It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.”
“In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.”

Source : Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights”
“[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them”
“The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.”
“In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion... And we believe that we are entering a technological age in which we will be able to interact with the richness of living information--not merely in the passive way that we have become accustomed to using books and libraries, but as active participants in an ongoing process, bringing something to it through our interaction with it, and not simply receiving something from it by our connection to it.”

Source : "In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990".
“I'm not good at watching stuff that I'm in at all. I should stop. I shouldn't watch something for the first time with a room full of people at Sundance. It's not a good idea.”
“It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.”
“I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.”

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