"In my younger days, when I was painted by the half-educated, loose and inaccurate ways women had, I used to say, "How much women need exact science" But since I have known some workers in science, I have now said, "How much science needs women""

-- Maria Mitchell

#Science Quotes #Needs Quotes #Half Quotes

“No one notices I'm breaking inside.”
“Iran is undertaking a massive effort to expand its influence in southern Iraq. At the same time, that influence decreases the more the political process in Iraq progresses.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes and learn from them. Human beings are in this world to learn and to change themselves in learning.”

Source : Traudl Junge (2012). “Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary”, p.6, Hachette UK
“That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.”
“People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.”

Source : Lyn Hejinian (2013). “My Life and My Life in the Nineties”, p.28, Wesleyan University Press
“A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamour or sexiness, but I like it when you can have some other element that makes it much more interesting.”
“To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must especially be removed to clear the way for something else...”
“You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.”

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