"In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom"

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Source : Mary Ritter Beard, Nancy F. Cott (1991). “A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters”, p.33, Yale University Press

Mary Ritter Beard

#Rights Quotes #Long Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness.”

Source : "Lawmakers brawl over bayou district" by Jonathan Allen and Adam Snider, www.politico.com. April 15, 2012.
“When we stand, the Azad Hind Fauz has to be like a wall of granite; when we march, the Azad Hind Fauz has to be like a steamroller.”

Source : "Formation and growth of the Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj)" by Durlab Singh, (p. 25), 1946.
“The Gospel that represents Jesus Christ, not as a system of truth to be received, into the mind, as I should receive a system of philosophy, or astronomy, but it represents Him as a real, living, mighty Savior, able to save me now.”

Source : "Aggressive Christianity: Practical Sermons".
“Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.”
“I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience”
“Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid down in scriptures, clearly, beginning in Genesis. And Muslim-majority countries are among the most vulnerable. Our response to this challenge ought to be rooted in a sense of stewardship of Earth. And for me and for many of us here today, that responsibility comes from God.”

Source : "President Obama's strategy against ISIS remains unclear". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2014.
“That's something I've certainly taken from writers like Gord Downie is that there is a whole potential for breaking out of meter. Even if you don't do it, you're permitted to. He gave a lot of writers permission to do that, to expand and push out the borders of what a rock song can contain.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Why do men go to zoos?”

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