"Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor."

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Ulysses S. Grant

#Inspirational Quotes #Work Quotes #Patriotic Quotes

“In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in aggressive insults and threats, all of which are propped up by the repeated narrative now that women are 'playing the gender card'. And this is the final insult. That of all the unfair things associated with women - the violence and insults, the financial oppression, the very undermining of our worth as human beings - it is the acknowledgement of these inequalities that gives us some kind of unfair advantage over the men who benefit from them.”
“A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world.”
“It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.”
“My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues”
“Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.”

Source : "It's Spreading" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. June 1, 2009.
“But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip.”
“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Jan 11, 2017
“Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.”

Source : Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.19, Head of Zeus

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