"Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?"

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Source : In Mary Wollstonecraft 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792) ch. 7

Vicesimus Knox

#Ignorance Quotes #Justice Quotes #Temptation Quotes

“Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if science will not grind to a stop in an assemblage of walled-in hermits, each mumbling to himself words in a private language that only he can understand.”
“If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other.”
“My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.”
“Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.”
“I was always keen to get involved in the school drama productions and was a member of the school choir. I was lucky to have attended schools that took music and drama very seriously and the teachers were just brilliant.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“This is why relays are so important, because you can find more in yourself for someone else, than what you can ever find for yourself.”
“In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.”

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