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The American doctor Edward Clarke argued in his 1870 bestseller, Sex in Education, that girls needed different education during adolescence to prevent the impairment of their fertility and well-being as blood needed in their nether regions
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“a team of researchers in Pakistan who screened soil from a city landfill site in Islamabad and found a novel fungal strain that could degrade polyurethane plastic.”
― Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
― Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
“You know what really gets me?” I asked him. “How people call you ‘illegals.’ That just pisses me off, I don’t know how you can stand it. A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal?”
― The Bean Trees
― The Bean Trees
“Tomorrow is tomorrow. Over there is over there. And here and now is not a bad place and time to be, especially when so much of the unknown is beautiful.”
― Light from Uncommon Stars
― Light from Uncommon Stars
“the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.”
― Oz, The Complete Paperback Collection: Volumes 1,2,3,4 & 5
― Oz, The Complete Paperback Collection: Volumes 1,2,3,4 & 5
“A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
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