"It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work"

-- Sheryl WuDunn

#Girl Quotes #Country Quotes #Moving Quotes

“There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea...”
“Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
“Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.”
“Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country that they cannot tolerate negligence. Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war.”
“In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.”

Source : Alex Grey (2017). “The Mission of Art”, p.38, Shambhala Publications
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

Source : "Discourse on the Method". Book by Rene Descartes (Part 1), 1637.
“Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.”
“The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed, not to control guns, but to control blacks.”

Source : Robert Sherrill (1973). “The Saturday night special: and other guns with which Americans won the West, protected bootleg franchises, slew wildlife, robbed countless banks, shot husbands purposely and by mistake, and killed presidents--together with the debate over continuing same”

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