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It used to be that the town well-off were considered the normal ones. They were like the people in movies and TV shows so it seemed they were Americans but lately Crystal and Kismet had come to know on some level that they were the real
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“If men tend to see structural barriers as minimal to nonexistent, is it any wonder that they feel little incentive to advocate for women?”
― Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work
― Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work
“I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing.”
― Liars
― Liars
“What counts is not how hard you work but how much you grow.”
― Hidden Potential
― Hidden Potential
“Constitutional democracy is based on two simultaneous but competing principles: a commitment to the will of the majority and a commitment to limit the potential excesses of the popular majority by recourse to a set of fundamental laws.”
― The Politics of Judicial Selection in Ireland
― The Politics of Judicial Selection in Ireland
“Now the ivory towers will be 'visitor centres'
visited mostly during the long winters
by sea-birds — cormorant, puffin, kittiwake —
and their quartz lenses' own impersonal stroke
while automatically their hard gem-like flames
circulating at night unseen in empty rooms
preside over global warming and polar melt-down,
over Bill Long's Marie-Celeste effect and 'sonar-singing dark'.”
― The Yellow Book
visited mostly during the long winters
by sea-birds — cormorant, puffin, kittiwake —
and their quartz lenses' own impersonal stroke
while automatically their hard gem-like flames
circulating at night unseen in empty rooms
preside over global warming and polar melt-down,
over Bill Long's Marie-Celeste effect and 'sonar-singing dark'.”
― The Yellow Book
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