"Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?"

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Shereen El Feki

#Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Law Quotes

“The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.”

Source : Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”
“So some will be left who remember.”
“Heraldry has been contemptuously termed 'the science of fools with long memories.'”

Source : James Robinson Planché, Arthur Prichard HARRISON (1852). “The Pursuivant of Arms; Or, Heraldry Founded Upon Facts”, p.3
“Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.”
“So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.”

Source : Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.9, Harper Collins
“I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.”
“In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.”
“I had a teacher who said something great. That was, 'Go out and collect your nos. Once you get fifty nos then you can start wondering when you can get a yes.' He said, 'It is not your job to get the job; its your job to do a consistent body of work. So, every time you go in there, just go in there and be consistent, and eventually it will get noticed and someone will hire you.'”

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