"But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit."

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Source : Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.52, Broadview Press

Margaret Cavendish

#Sex Quotes #Aggravation Quotes #Merit Quotes

“Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless.”
“Originally, when I got the role of Lisa [from Visitors], I was a little concerned, because I was worried I would be typecast as an alien for the rest of my life. But they are so, so different that it wasn't at all a problem. I'm very lucky. I'm blessed to be on another show. I think it's going to do really well.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.”
“You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.”
“A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Dude, that was a knuckle buster brother.”
“Any business that is looking for new customers needs to understand the Internet and how to market their goods or services through it.”
“Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed to failure. For the strong the weak are just too much of a temptation; and in all fairness it seems to me quite wicked for black people to have tempted the powerful with so much powerless-ness for so long. The obvious answer is to redress this imbalance in power.”

Source : Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

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