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Ideas are more powerful than people. ↗

To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #eating-disorders #feminism #self-esteem #society

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauty #confusion #depression #discern #discernment

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#expect #face #meet #never #our

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded. ↗

— Dale Turner

#better #correct #failed #mistake #nothing

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#computer #democracy #educated #hijacked #i

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#decades #democratic #free #freedom #history

From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#judeo-christian #policy #principles #standpoint

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#believed #could #debt #government #government spending

In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended. ↗