"The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?"

-- Judith Ellen Foster

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“Men have two basic needs. Neither of them, no matter what they say, is sex. They need love and they need work. And work takes priority over love. If a woman could know only one fact about men and work, it should be that work is the most seductive mistress most men ever have.”
“Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.”
“Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.”
“Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us.”

Source : David Henry Hwang (1989). “M. Butterfly”, Plume
“I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.”

Source : "Risky business". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.
“The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.”

Source : Manning Marable (1980). “From the grassroots: essays toward Afro-American liberation”
“I think there are nice things about every era. I wish we could just take the nice things.”
“The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.”

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