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“Slowly ... the truth is dawning upon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella of fate to be dowered only by fairies and the Prince; but that for her and in her, as truly as for and in man, life has wrought its great experiences, its master attainments, its supreme human revelations of the stuff of which worlds are made.”
Source : Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”
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“He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.”
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“The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?”
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“Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.”
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“Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common thingsor it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.”
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“Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.”
Source : Ben Casnocha (2015). “My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley”, p.87, John Wiley & Sons
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“My guilty pleasure is elastic-waisted pants. And reruns of shows Ive already seen 400 times on TV.”
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“I don't look at women as groupies. To me, a groupie is a stalker. If you're a fan, then you're a fan. But I can look at a woman and become a fan of hers instantly. I'll tell a woman, "Look, I don't want your phone number. Just give me your autograph. Can I take a picture with you?"”
Source : "Ty Me Up, Ty Me Down". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 20, 2007.