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«When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.»
«Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.»
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
| About:
Bitterness
| Keywords:
anoints, bitterness, blinds, empower, empowering, empowers, heals, imprisons, paralyzes, releases, sicken, sickened, sickening, sickens, sours, sweetened, sweetens
«Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.»
Author: John Perry Barlow
| About:
Government,
Privacy
| Keywords:
asking, blinds, install, peep, peeping, Peeping Tom, peeps, privacy, protect, relying, the government, tom, window
«Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.»
Author: John Dryden
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
blinds, enlightens, The Fool
«There is no Heaven, there is no Hell; These are the dreams of baby minds; Tools of the wily Fetisheer, To fright the fools his cunning blinds»
«Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
blinds, Contraries, contrary, enhances, enhancing, falsehood, light, object, objected, on the contrary, twilight
«Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
blinds, enlightening, enlightens, interest
«Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as ''spectacles'' to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
blinds, dispositions, drudge, drudges, foil, foiled, foils, indolent, keep out, literary, made use of, scenery, shifting, spectacles