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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. ↗

— Voltaire

#dangerous #established #matters #right #which

In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that "a woman is as good as a man," without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that. What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: (...) that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #dignity #discrimination #double-standards #empowerment

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#grace #perspicacity #violence #writing #age

To forgive does not mean to forget. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#inspirational #meditation #art

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#old-age #running #age

Even though your thinking might not be right for others, just so long as it's right for you then that's all what matters. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

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I’m older than myself. At least I will be, once my clone gets here.
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— Jarod Kintz

#age #bizarre #clones #funny #humor

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#political-philosophy #age

I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more... ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#death #inspirational #life #age