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Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography by Justin Kaplan
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Margaret Thatcher
“In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”
― Margaret Thatcher
tags: gender-roles, gender-stereotypes, men, women
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.”
― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
tags: forefathers, fundamentalism, irreverant
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