"If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human."

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Source : "Mary Beard reveals she befriended Twitter trolls following online abuse" by Hannah Ellis-Petersen, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2014.

Mary Beard

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“The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue.”
“The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect â€” to help people work together â€” and not as a technical toy.”

Source : "Weaving the Web". Book by Tim Berners-Lee, 1999.
“SavingÂ our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth â€“Â these are one and the same fight.”
“Somebody approached me about writing a biography on me, I told them they were too late.”
“The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.”

Source : "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.
“This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.”

Source : "Geithner's Speech to the Economic Club of Washington" by Timothy Geithner, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 22, 2009.
“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.”
“When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden sunlight sifting to a forest floor.”

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