"To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long."

-- Naomi Wolf

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“Tungsten, X-rays, and Coolidge form a trinity that has left an indelible impression upon our life and times. The key word in this triad is Coolidge, for his work brought the element tungsten from laboratory obscurity to the central role of the industrial stage and gave the X-ray a central role in the progress of medicine throughout the world.”
“Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.”

Source : Wassily Kandinsky (1914). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.25, Courier Corporation
“I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.”
“After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.”

Source : "Breaking: CIA's Petraeus Resigning". David Petraeus' letter of resignation to the CIA staff, security.blogs.cnn.com. November 9, 2012.
“Change is never easy.”
“Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.”
“Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.”
“The 'futures' and 'careers' for which American students now prepare are for the most part intellectual and moral wastelands. This chrome-plated consumers' paradise would have us grow up to be well-behaved children. But an important minority of men and women coming to the front today have shown they will die rather than be standardized, replaceable, and irrelevant.”

Source : Mario Savio, Eugene Walker, Raya Dunayevskaya (1965). “The Free Speech Movement and the Negro revolution”

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