"someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God."

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Source : Jan Burke (2002). “Sweet Dreams, Irene: An Irene Kelly Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

Jan Burke

#Arrogance Quotes #Accepted Quotes #Application Quotes

“We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again.”
“Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr., were. Not many Americans have even heard of Alice Paul, Howard W. Smith, and Martha Griffiths. But they played almost as big a role in the history of womenâ€™s rights as Marshall and King played in the history of civil rights for African-Americans. They gave women the handle to the door to economic opportunity, and nearly all the gains women have made in that sphere since the nineteen-sixties were made because of what they did.”

Source : "The Sex Amendment". www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2014.
“Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.”
“Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are well educated you have already been socialized in ways that support the power structure, which, in turn, rewards you immensely.”
“You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
“I recognize no rights but human rights.”
“If life isÂ worth living then it's worth recording.”
“I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.”

Source : Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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