Barbara G. Walker Quotes

Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.

Barbara G. Walker

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In a dream it's typical not to be rational.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

Robert Strauss

YouTaxSalesWouldEverybodyTaxed

What's wrong with the auto industry isn't that it failed to create jobs. What's wrong is that it emphasizes jobs over general growth itself.

Amity Shlaes

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According to 'M' theory, ours is not the only universe. Instead, 'M' theory predicts that a great many universes were created out of nothing.

Stephen Hawking

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People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

Tracy Chapman

DreamsPeopleYouWantNeedReal

Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.

Rupert Murdoch

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Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can't get it back.

Rush Limbaugh

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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Miles Davis

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The word 'improv' always makes me feel a little anxious because I always feel like we'll have to pull props out of a bag and find 800 different ways to talk about a stick, the way you do in theater school.

Jonathan Groff

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I think art breaks down otherness.

Dee Rees

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I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect.

David Sylvian

RespectCultureListeningReading

Everybody has said or done the wrong thing and regretted it later, but at the time, you really couldn't help it! As you get older, you're more guarded, but that's a really tough process of learning, to be brutally honest, about some things and keeping your mouth shut about others.

Cliff Chiang

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