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«Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.»
Author: Bella Abzug
| About:
Feminism,
Struggle,
Women
| Keywords:
appointed, assistant, assistants, assistant professor, professor, promoted, schlemiel
«The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.»
Author: Claude Pepper
| Keywords:
anointed, anoints, appointed, appointing, appoints, forgetting, Politicians
«Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.»
Author: Doris Lessing
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appointed, communism, continuum, heritage, imposing, once again, party line, political correctness, self-appointed, The Natural, The Party, views
«The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.»
«The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.»
Author: Jeannette Rankin
(Politician)
| Keywords:
appointed, appointing, appoints, behavior, disposition, independent, or else, required, rescue, rescues, rescuing, role, self respect, thereby, The Independent, thousand times, wreckage
«Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear.»
Author: Philip Howard
| Keywords:
appointed, appointing, crow, cuddly, grim, Hughes, John Betjeman, laureate, Old Crow, Poet Laureate, replace, Sir John, Ted, teddy, teddy bear, Ted Hughes
«The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
accumulation, accumulations, appointed, appointing, appoints, definition, elective, executive, Executive power, hereditary, judiciary, justly, legislative, Legislative power, powers, pronounced, pronouncing, self-appointed
«Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value; / And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.»
«So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.»