rise up

 

“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”

 

~ Socrates ~

 

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the milk of human kindness

 

“The universe is a pretty big place.

If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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a sea of humanity

 

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever

in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”

 

~ Kenneth E. Boulding ~

 

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woman

 

“You had the power all along my dear.”

 

~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~

 

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might have made a difference

 

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe

the air is sickening, you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts and that

you can’t eat money.”

 

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

 

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LA FEMME QUI LIT

 

“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”

 

~ Lisa Kleypas ~

 

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TELL ME

 

“Hatred is something peculiar.

You will always find it strongest and most violent

where there is the lowest degree of culture.”

 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 

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WOMAN

 

“You had the power all along my dear.”

 

~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~

 

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THE SLAVE

 

“If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?”

 

~ Mary Astell ~

 

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HATS OFF TO GOD

 

“Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear,

explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”

 

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

 

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WAG THE DOG

 

“Any man can make mistakes,

but only an idiot persists in his error.”

 

~Marcus Tullius Cicero ~

 

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SHEEP

 

“I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious,

and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.”

 

~ Moliere ~

 

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LA FEMME QUI LIT

 

“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”

 

~ Lisa Kleypas ~

 

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BRICK BY BRICK

 

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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RISE UP

 

“Life shrinks or expands

in proportion with one’s courage.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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MISANTHROPE

 

“Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,

and I am not yet completely sure about the universe.”

 

~ quote attributed to Albert Einstein

by Frederick S. Perls ~

 

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EYESWIDE

 

“Living is easy with eyes closed,

misunderstanding all you see.”

 

~ John Lennon ~

 

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UN VIE VOLÉE

 

“What I want from life

is not always what life wants from me.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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DANS LE STYLE DES MAMMOUTHS

 

“In pushing other species to extinction,

humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.”

 

~ Paul R. Ehrlich ~

 

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THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS

 

“Billions of years from now our sun,

then a distended red giant star,

will have reduced Earth to a charred cinder.

But the Voyager record will still be largely intact,

in some other remote region of the Milky Way galaxy,

preserving a murmur of an ancient civilization that once flourished.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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