"If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky.... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children."

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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“The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.”
“I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.”

Source : David Millar, Jeremy Whittle (2012). “Racing Through the Dark: Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young girls losing themselves, such that they were no longer humans with any souls or characters, but pretty girls with fat ***** and nice tits.”
“We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled.”
“Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.”

Source : "A Plea for the Queen's English? RU joking?" by Dan Cook, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.
“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently.”

Source : Mark Epstein (2006). “Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught”, p.35, Penguin
“South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.”
“America is a center right government, center right people. They want government but they don't want it to be excessive. They want it to be affordable. And most importantly what Americans want is to pass on to their next generation their children a country that's better, stronger and more vibrant and more prosperous.”

Source : "The John King, USA Show", www.realclearpolitics.com. April 13, 2010.

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