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I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life. ↗

— Tina Turner

#certain #dragging #else #go #i

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#biology #die #each #half #kills

I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#could #gay #i #know #look

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#comes #darfur #matters #might #more

You would see people going back to homes that had been burned, putting thatch over their structures again. They still couldn't leave the area without the danger of men being killed or women being raped, but it was a start. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#area #back #been #being #burned

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#commitment #dancer #difficult #force #frankly

America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. ↗

— Peter Kropotkin

#america #come #country #freedom #guarantees

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain. ↗

— Paul Krugman

#company #fact #funny #in fact #men

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. ↗

— Peter Kropotkin

#beneficial #could #customs #enforced #even

I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#bucks #call #crap #eloquently #good