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		I was taught to do math and read at the same time. So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven is to one against your finding the prince. That's why little girls don't do math.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Emily Levine
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Auguste Comte
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. 'Tell me, O Master,' he said, 'why you have come into this world.' 'To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anthony de Mello
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		to audience member How much do you smoke a day sir? the man says a pack Pack! What a little puss. Gosh, why don't you just put a dress on and show it all to us while you smoke your little faggoty pack. C'mon, swish around for us. Damnit that pisses me off. I go through two lighters a day, dude. I'm starting to feel it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Hicks
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I went through a phase of eating dinner in the shower because I thought, 'Why don't we do that?' Then I realised, 'Because it doesn't make any sense.' It doesn't save any time, and you can't really get into a steak and baked potato when there's water pouring on you.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brie Larson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There's a beautiful side to her; she's not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Angelina Jolie
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		I saw an advertisement to work for a Swedish institute in Karachi in Pakistan. I had just been offered a permanent assignment, teaching in Oulu. But I felt, 'My God, I am not going to stay here forever.' You know why? Because I was following international events.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Martti Ahtisaari
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alice Duer Miller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Art Linkletter
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Lasseter
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anna Letitia Barbauld