"My local paper, The New York Times, Yahoo News, CBS, and The Washington Post, all agreed to stop using the word 'mistress.' The big one was the Associated Press. They made a style change, and it's the gold standard that sets the guide for news outlets around the world. That's a small step for the American language, a medium step for feminism, and a huge step for me personally."

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Source : Source: www.vanityfair.com

Paula Broadwell

#New York Quotes #Style Quotes #Mistress Quotes

“We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.”
“LeBron doesn't have any weaknesses, or he doesn't have a glaring weakness. So you've got to pick up on the smaller things to try to make him uncomfortable. Like knowing which side he likes to shoot threes off the dribble, which side he likes to drive. One side he'll drive left more often, and the other side he'll drive right more often.”

Source : "Game Quotes: Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors - June 16". Interview, scores.nba.com. June 17, 2015.
“The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.”

Source : Theodore Parker (1871). “Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons”, p.253
“One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though.”

Source : Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.234, Spectra
“I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.”
“It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.”
“Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.”
“Frankly, we doubt the veracity and seriousness of the United States in regard to achieving results that would be acceptable to both sides in Geneva.”

Source : "Peace is Possible: The Politics of the Sermon on the Mount" by Franz Alt, (p. 94), 1985.

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