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"We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity."
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"Every day in life we're told who this is and who that is. But when we sit we're all the same when we remove our hat."
"I am a scientist who studies the human mind, including the sexual differences in mental faculties, and I am telling you, ten female thinkers can teach humanity lessons equivalent to the teachings of a hundred male thinkers of history."
"Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve."
"No wonder women don't negotiate as often as men. It's like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels."
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"No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable."
"For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character."
"Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build."
"I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing."
"A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence."
"What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it."
"We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government."
"Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error."
"For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want."
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