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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.

Kate Adie

Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Words are not just wind. Words have something to say. But if what they have to say is not fixed, then do they really say something? Or do they say nothing? People suppose that words are different from the peeps of baby birds, but is there any differe...

Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings

Freedom, or individual liberty, was a basic premise of the Spanish anarchist tradition. "Individual sovereignty" is a prime tenet of most anarchist writing; the free development of one' s individual potential is one of the basic "rights" to which all...

Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women

Brian Taylor: This is my day job. Some of you might know me as Brian or Taylor, but here I am Police Officer 2 Brian Taylor. This is where the forces of good prepare to fight the forces of evil. This is my partner, Officer Zavala. Mike Zavala: I'm on...

End of Watch

The basic problem of the Christians in this country in the last eighty years or so, in regard to society and in regard to government, is that they have seen things in bits and pieces instead of totals.

A Christian Manifesto

The person with a safe center doesn't fear change. We can choose change without fear before a challenge only when we are strongly centered.

Dahn Yoga Basics

Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings. Once the lights are out, you can expect at least an hour of inmates clanging their tin cups on the cell bars.

Dad Is Fat

At its most basic, the allure of fundamentalism, whether religious or ideological, liberal or conservative, is that it provides an appealing order to things that are actually disorderly.

The Dismal Science: A Novel

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age.

Empowerment Basics

Self-confidence can be defined in two sentences. (1) I trust myself to face life’s challenges and (2) I trust myself to follow my dreams and goals.

Empowerment Basics

Some people have sex by putting fishhooks in each other. Couple this act with a simple understanding of the basic function of all living creatures to expand and contract. Now, try that with fishhooks.

Empathy

Regardless of the nature of the conflict, one basic rule translates into most Conflict Zone “Theatres” that doesn’t make it into Movie Theaters is that the food runs out faster than the bullets.

epocalypse

He's mad at me." "For what?" "For not being like him." Eleanor looked dubious. "Has he been mad at you for the last sixteen years?" "Basically.

Eleanor & Park

Was there some basic flaw in her makeup that made her keep falling in love with this man who couldn’t love her back?

Glitter Baby

In other words, what we know for sure is entirely limited, and all the rest is basically opinion.

The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal & the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic

You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for moral superiority.

Bleeds My Desire

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Being Peace

From the Buddhist perspective, the only lasting way to bring about change is for people themselves to change.

Basics of Buddhism: Key principles and how to practise

A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Basic Verities, Prose, and Poetry