"Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to fill up the gaps in human relationships made by international ambitions and greeds ... War will pass when intellectual culture and activity have made possible to the female an equal share in the governance of modern national life; it will probably not pass away much sooner; its extinction will not be delayed much longer."

-- Olive Schreiner

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“Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.”
“Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd.”

Source : Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.207, Changemakers Books
“When I finished my college education my agent said to me â€¦'The key to beauty is to be always educating yourself, always learning something new, always doing something new and to have something to talk about.' And I never forgot that, and I think that's how one ages beautifully.”

Source : "‘About Face’: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ Film Focuses On Aging Supermodels", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.
“The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.”
“Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.”
“This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.”
“Logic is what the devil likes most.”

Source : Kelly Braffet (2012). “Josie and Jack: A Novel”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.”

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