Leila Slimani Quotes
I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.
Leila Slimani
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Abbie Hoffman
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
Haile Gebrselassie
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
Harold H. Greene
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz
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When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.
Daniel Barenboim
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Panic is a horrible thing.
Jaclyn Smith
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We still think and talk of the basic problems of an industrial society as problems that can be solved by changing the system, that is the superstructure of political organization. Yet the real problems lie within the industrial enterprise. ...our representative institution... a mirror in which we look when we want to see ourselves.
Peter Drucker
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Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
Karl Kraus
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In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were living in Bible Belt farming country miles from civilization. Buckley seemed impossibly exotic.
Malcolm Gladwell
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I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.
Leila Slimani
