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“What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?”
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“The more that we gather at the seasonal tides of Nature, the more we become like Nature. When we become like Her it is easier to understand Her.”
Source : Raven Grimassi (2003). “The Wiccan mysteries: ancient origins & teachings”, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd
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“Although eugenics flourished in Nazi Germany, the ideal of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race wasn’t Adolf Hitler’s. It may surprise many to know that, in Mein Kampf, Hitler credited America with helping formulate his ideas on eugenics, and he admitted he’d studied the laws of US states to familiarize himself with selective reproduction and other eugenics issues.”
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“Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.....”
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“By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a narrow river, as there is across town, but of one of the noblest rivers in the United States.”
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“I've come to realize that Barack Obama is the tattoo president. Like a big tattoo, it seemed cool when you were young. But later on, that decision doesn't look so good, and you wonder: what was I thinking? But the worst part is you're still going to have to explain it to your kids.”
Source : "Pawlenty's 5 best Obama punchlines" by Kevin Cirilli, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.
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“I always found myself more drawn to each religious milieu than I would have anticipated, but in time, a ghoulish threat of being absorbed in alien territory always sent me retreating to the blander and safer ground of home.”
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“In fact, technology in, and of, itself does not cause particular kinds of change. It is, essentially, an enabling or facilitating agent. It makes possible new structures, new organizational and geographical arrangements of economic activities, new products and new processes, while not making particular, outcomes inevitable.”
Source : Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.85, SAGE