"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart."

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"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart."

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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."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Equality, Life, Identity, Truth

"Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. 'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything. Ever."

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian Writer

Equality, Gender, Education, Truth

"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."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Equality, Wisdom, Truth, Power, Today

"No belief or idea is sacred, unless it treats all people as sacred."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Equality, Belief, Truth, Life

"Even though God has given the gift of time to all men equally, it is what each man does with this equal gift of time that determines whether or not he will be great."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Equality, Gift, Time, Equal, Choice

"No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Equality, America, Battle, Dying, Fighting

"Our creator is the King of all kings. Which makes us the royal children of His. So don't ever place yourself beneath or above any human being on earth."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

Equality, Humility, Spiritual, Respect

"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."

John Piper, American Clergyman

Equality, Truth, People, Diversity, Judgment

"I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there."

Maureen Reagan, American Celebrity

Equality, Men, Women, Office

"No wonder women don't negotiate as often as men. It's like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels."

Sheryl Sandberg, American Author

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"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise."

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"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing."

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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."

"Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. 'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything. Ever."

"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."

"No belief or idea is sacred, unless it treats all people as sacred."

"Even though God has given the gift of time to all men equally, it is what each man does with this equal gift of time that determines whether or not he will be great."

"No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle."

"Our creator is the King of all kings. Which makes us the royal children of His. So don't ever place yourself beneath or above any human being on earth."

"I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there."

"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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"Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously to answer wisely to consider soberly and to decide impartially."

"It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from absolute Beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute Beauty, and for no other reason... [I]t is by Beauty that beautiful things are beautiful."

"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise."

"I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece but of the world."

"An honest man is always a child."

"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."

"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."

"Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death."

"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."

"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing."