Of all the forms of injustice, that is the most egregious which makes the
circumstances of sex a reason for excluding one half of mankind from all
those paths which lead to usefulness and honor.
-- Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
circumstances of sex a reason for excluding one half of mankind from all
those paths which lead to usefulness and honor.
-- Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
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- Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning
the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. -... - Probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have
descended from some one primordial form,
into which live was first breathed... There is granduer... - All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries
or credulities of mankind.
Joseph... - It [aviation] is a tool specially shaped for Western hands,
a scientific art which others only copy in a mediocre... - fuck me harder excl.
Sometimes uttered in response to
egregious misbehavior,
esp. in software, and esp. of misbehaviors which... - fuck me harder: excl. Sometimes uttered in response to egregious
misbehavior,
esp. in software, and esp. of misbehaviors which ... - The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to
join in checking this mad,
wicked folly of "Woman's Rights", with all its attendant... - INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others
and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the
back.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - Of all the agonies of life, that which is most poignant and harrowing-
that which for the most time annihilates reason and...
From the same category:
- To understand everything is to hate nothing. --
Romain Rolland (1866... - Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. --
Francis Bacon (1561... - In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one
wants and the other is getting it.
The last is much the worst, the last is the real tragedy... - Military service produces moral imbecility, ferocity and cowardice.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) "John Bull's Other... - Happy is the country which requires no heroes.
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Berthold Brecht (1898-1956) New Republic, 23 Sept....
