"A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears."

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Source : 1673 An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen In Religion, Manners, Art and Tongues,With An Answer to the Objections against this Way of Education.

Bathsua Makin

#Gender Quotes #Comets Quotes #Mischief Quotes

“The only equivalent plunge from genius I could think of was Ernest Hemmingway's tragic loss of ability to write. Hemmingway got up one morning and shot himself. Nicklaus got up the next morning and shot 66.”
“The passenger train is like the male teat - neither useful nor ornamental.”
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“American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's minds wasted? Exceptional at what? Eating more junk food and becoming the most obese nation on Earth?”
“You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.”
“Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great.”
“...visual truth lies in the structure of light.”
“It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.”

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