#ada

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#degradation #found #fully #grand #history

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#fragrance #france #must #oneself

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. ↗

— Stendhal

#forty years #make #nobility #now #our

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

#nothing #nowadays #once #pretext #profound

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#because #big #changing #creatively #environment

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life. ↗

— Sting

#canada #emigrated #found #friend #guitar

All the really good players I know, they all knew right from wrong. So many of them don't learn that at home nowadays. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#home #i #knew #know #learn

I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou. ↗

— George Strait

#arizona #been #canada #deer #good

Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#babies #canada #child #even #got

Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#between #billion #canada #cent #dollars