"There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women."

-- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

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“Results have nothing at all whatever to do with the private fun of being an author. There lies the answer to the problem which puzzles many wise people. Now it is plain why there are so many of us ... But the public fun of being an author is rather apt to wear thin.”

Source : Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”
“But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite.”
“There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.”
“I will create value for society, rather than extract it.”

Source : John C. Bogle (2010). “Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life”, p.23, John Wiley & Sons
“The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.”
“Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate our attention totally on it's pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing it still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.”
“No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.”

Source : "Zen and Reality". Book by Robert Powell, p. 72, 1975.
“It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.”

Source : Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”

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