"Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey."

-- Camille Paglia

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“If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.”
“Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.”

Source : Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose (2002). “Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush”, p.131, Vintage
“Are you a stingy breather? Well, don't be. Be extravagant with you breathing and come fully alive.”
“Lifting weights is obviously important, because you want to be strong and fast and all of that, but it's not one of those things you gotta go and try to bench as much as you can every day. A bench press isn't going to help you throw a 15-yard out or a deep comeback. It's not about that. It's about training right”
“My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is, by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl when they see that.”
“For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.”
“There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.”

Source : "In Musharraf's Words: 'A Day of Reckoning'". www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2002.
“Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.”

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