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  • Francis Bacon Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Camille Paglia Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.
    Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Mae West Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Barber Conable Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
    Source: The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91
    Barber Conable
    American politician (1922 - 2003)
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  • Oscar Wilde Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Nancy Astor Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
    Nancy Astor
    First woman Member of Parliament (1879 - 1964)
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  • Barbara Hall Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.
    Source: Northern Exposure Baby Blues
    Barbara Hall
    American television writer and producer (1960 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Anthony Burgess Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Barbara Mikulski Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • David Sarnoff Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
    David Sarnoff
    American Entrepreneur (1891 - 1971)
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  • Don Herold Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.
    Don Herold
    American humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist (1889 - 1966)
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  • Sir William Osler Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Bill Shorten Workplace relations is about getting the best out of people. An argument which says that the only way we can compete with other nations in the world is engaging in a race to the bottom in terms of pay rates, penalty rates, protections on rosters, getting rid of family friendly provisions - that is not Australia's future.
    Bill Shorten
    Australian politician (1967 - )
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  • Rohinton Mistry World can be a bewildering place, and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps.
    Source: Tales from Firozsha Baag (2008) 117
    Rohinton Mistry
    Indian-born Canadian writer (1952 - )
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  • Peace Pilgrim World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • John F. Kennedy World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Sebastian Coe World records are only borrowed.
    Sebastian Coe
     
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  • Colin Powell Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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