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"Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.''Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl."

"When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind."

"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."

"Every living object has to change every moment just to live."

"Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion."

"Losing your job gives you the opportunity to make your life count."

"If you don't like the solution, change the problem."
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"There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye."

"Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith."

"If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh."

"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."

"Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality."

"And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that."

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern."
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