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The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#necessity #peace #states #united #united states

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#action #alter #done #ever #evil

The avian influenza found in mainland British Columbia poses no significant threat to human health. ↗

— John Clifford

#british #british columbia #columbia #found #health

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition--so that women will only feel healthy if we are two thirds of the women we could be. How can an "ideal" be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic does not show on her body, and how much of a female life does not show on her face? ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#belief #create #every #every man #fellows

If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#cultural #dominates #ground #ground zero #groups

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#bigger #drop #got #much #others

Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#inequities #into #out #real #real world

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek. ↗

— Jones Very

#bequeathed #converse #even #feel #greatness

Faith is a state of openness or trust. ↗

— Alan Watts

#openness #state #trust