Look, you’ve got to love yourself not only in the abstract; you’ve got to love your big lips; you’ve got to love your flat nose; you’ve got to love your skin, hands, all the way down.
Government can redistribute income, but it can’t redistribute fathers. Yet government is not helpless. Public policy has a huge influence on multidimensional inequality — though we see it most clearly when things go wrong…Government could achieve a lot simply by making fewer gross errors. If government can’t redistribute fathers, it can reform policies that, in one way or another, drive many away from responsible fatherhood. Criminal-justice reform and education reform may be the most powerful anti-inequality weapons.
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Evan Soltas in Bloomberg.
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It’s just like applying poison to your body. It’s like applying a shellac of poison. It’s just delicious, wonderful poison that makes you not care how late you’re out ‘til or where you’re going. I had to really say, ‘I like singing and writing more than I like delicious scotch.’ I had to really dial it down. And I’m a little more boring now.
Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not?
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Eulogy given by Ted Kennedy at Robert Kennedy’s funeral
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In our sleep pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom, through the awful grace of god.
The best contraception is affluence and education
Woman power! The power to create, and sustain life. The power to inspire men to bravery, to give security to little children, a limitless e ever-flowing source of moral and physical energy- working- for victory! That is women power!
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From a WW2 era advertisement calling for women to leave the home front and replace men (who went to battle) in the workplace.
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