"We're all people", he said simply. "It doesn't matter if you're two, thirty-two, or ninety-two. Everyone wants to be treated with respect. Everyone wants to feel like they matter in this world."

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Source : Megan McCafferty (2006). “Charmed Thirds: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.59, Broadway Books

Megan McCafferty

#Two Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.”

Source : Judith Butler (2011). “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity”, p.42, Routledge
“I'm just very interested in what my guests have to say. You have to be vigilant to stay ignorant.”
“I cannot...perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result from the adoption of any of those projects, which have professed to have in view what is called Parliamentary Reform...when the funding system, from whatever cause, shall cease to operate upon civil and political liberty, there will be no need of projects for parliamentary reform. The parliament will, as far as shall be necessary, then reform itself.”
“As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I'm crying. So I go back to the stories I've read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine.”
“Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions.”
“Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.”
“Love is the omnipresent force of the universe; it unifies energy and consciousness.”
“It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.”

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