"I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race."

-- Peggy McIntosh

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“The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.”

Source : Ford Madox Ford, Graham Greene (1963). “The Bodley Head: Parade's end. Pt.2. No more parades. Pt.3. A man could stand up”
“Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.”
“The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.”

Source : In G. M. Young 'Stanley Baldwin' (1952) ch. 13
“Millionaires don't use astrology...the billionaires do.”
“When George W.Bush attacked Afghanistan, it was widely hailed, and the failure of our war there wasn't understood. Within a few months of attacking Afghanistan, Bush clearly moved on to get ready for Iraq, long before Osama bin Laden or Al Qaeda were dispensed with. There was never any serious debate in the press about whether even the notion that every Taliban was our enemy was valid. A lot of assumptions about that war were never challenged.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.”

Source : Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.191, Northwestern University Press
“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.”
“There's nothing quite like a World Cup.”

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