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Edith Wharton Quotes

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937

Topics

Others Weak Critics Well Rather

The culture of the U.S. military is such that human enhancement is accepted as a goal, taking people beyond the norm. There are so many resources going into that kind of research.

Culture People Research Goal Kind

Worrisome thoughts and their resulting feelings are a form of self strangulation. They not only strangle your emotions. They affect your physical life as well, and your ability to focus and get things done.

Andrew J. Bernstein

Life Focus Thoughts Self Emotions

The notion that gaming was not for women rippled out into society, until we heard it not just from the games industry, but from our families, teachers and friends. As a consequence, I, like many women, had a complicated, love-hate relationship with gaming culture.

Anita Sarkeesian

Women Relationship Culture Society

Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

Women Police Society Generation Year

And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I've done that. So I feel happy about doing that.

Work Happy Feel Doing House Done

I'm proud of being Hispanic.

Proud Hispanic Being

I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.

Time Think Golf Divorce Never Sunny

I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late.

Opinion World Late Everything Before

Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult.

Mind Hands You Wrong Person Toys

I certainly don't hope to live forever, but on the other hand, I'm not reckless.

Bradley Wiggins

Live Hope Hand Forever Reckless

Sometimes I want to do something that's really funny and other times I read an indie script that is going to be made for nothing but I want to do it because I think that I can connect with something in the story.

Funny Story Think I Can Sometimes

We were what you would call a poor family, but we were rich in so many things. We did family things together. We always had dessert, even if it was just Jell-O. So, I never knew I was poor.

Family Together Rich You Poor Never

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