"Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table."

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Source : "Arabella Weir: I weighed my parents' love on the bathroom scales" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

Arabella Weir

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“All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.”

Source : Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)
“Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.”

Source : Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr
“Strategists who donâ€™t take time to think are just planners.”
“The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time.”

Source : Jakob Nielsen (1994). “Usability Engineering”, p.20, Morgan Kaufmann
“A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.”
“Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.”

Source : James Hervey, William ROMAINE (1812). “Meditations and Contemplations ... To which is prefixed the life of the author: and a sermon on his death by the Rev. W. Romaine ... With ... engravings, etc. [With a portrait.]”, p.214
“I don't think anything will change until Americans revolt and get it into their heads that they need to be informed voters instead of just listening to the paid political ads.”
“I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer frustration, screaming, 'JUST TELL ME WHOSE SKULL TO CRACK WITH MY CLUB, DAMMIT!”

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