"one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation."

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Susan Jacoby

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“A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.”

Source : 1987 Of the Iran-Contra scandal. In the NewYork Times, 24 Jul.
“It's exciting to me that Ride Along is a movie that has two African American leads, but it's even more exciting to me that it's not a movie about two African American leads. They just happen to be African American. It's a universal story. It's a story about a guy in love with a girl, and he's gotta get the approval of the overbearing, mean brother. That's a universal theme.”
“During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.”
“Iâ€™m from Texasâ€¦the bigger the hair, the closer to God!”
“Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.”
“The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.”
“Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.”
“A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely”

Source : R.J. Ellory (2013). “The R. J. Ellory Collection”, p.1441, Hachette UK

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