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I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#contempt #dignity #double-standards #empowerment #equality

Now, of course, cold fusion is the daddy of them all in a way, in terms of value, so I think that viewed in a social way, from the point of social considerations and economics, it will tell you that this thing will stay around. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#cold #considerations #course #daddy #economics

Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#bit #come #consciously #ever #hide

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#also #began #being #composing #i

What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#determine #does #feel #how #media

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic. ↗

— Horst Koehler

#both #both sides #capable #compromise #country

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.' ↗

— Johnny Depp

#airplane #food #kind #like #oxymoron

A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget. ↗

— Horst Koehler

#america #could #few #forget #fought

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. ↗

— Henry Ford

#capital #highest #life #make #money

Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#efforts #federation #furthermore #government #great