"It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women."

-- Charles Fourier

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“When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier has to defend itself against the population they are crushing. You can't defend yourself when you're militarily occupying someone else's land. That's not defense. Call it what you like, it's not defense.”
“"Fun to drive" is a pleasant illusion in most places robustly inhabited where "safe to drive" makes much more sense.”

Source : Source: live.washingtonpost.com
“...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of prejudice and fixed ideas, when all the time it is more likely that the machine which contains them is only an elaborate cement-mixer, and when the thinking is finished, those whirling thoughts are smoothed into the unchanged conventional mould and seeing them set solid enough to dance, to build, to travel upon, we would never dream of their first deceit, of the hope once roused by their apparently violent reorganisation...”
“Some of the most cutthroat auditions youll have as an actor are when youll have three words to say.”
“Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitionsâ€¦ Such human weeds clog up the path, drain up the energies and the resources of this little earth. We must clear the way for a better world; we must cultivate our garden.”
“The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.”
“Oh, yes. I mean to marry him. But not because I want him to give me a life. I want to marry him to share the life I already have. The difference, I think you will find, is a significant one.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent on the Moor”, p.119, MIRA
“Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.”

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