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"Women had internalized their subjugation of men as the latter were the breadwinners. Since then women have become quite conscious of their new status."

"Christian Classics Ethereal Library a 19th-century translation of Irenaeus:"

"Ray is clearly anguished, Persephone realizes; he believes this stuff with all his soul and all his guts. He believes in the viral metaphor of a bronze-age rabble-rouser from the Levant, as interprete…"

"Willa Cather Page at Gustavus Adolphus College"

"Engels spoke of the proletariat as ‘those asses,’ or ‘those stupid workers who believe everything.’ Marx said, ‘The ultimate aim of the movement’ is not to produce small farmers by dividing up the lan…"

"What makes love making and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space"

"Banks are unprofitable because they make too many bad loans and their good loans have little profit in them. They also have the dubious advantage of an awful set of accounting conventions—“a rolling l…"

"Ask yourself: "Do I police what people say for political propriety? … do I scrutinize great literature, music, art, television or comedy for signs of so-called sexism, racism, elitism, homophobia, ant…"

"One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that does the regulating rather than vice versa."

"Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness."

"If out of reading this book you get just one thing—an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle—if you get that one thing out of this…"

"The concerns of fiction, let it be said, are not those of a statistician — or of a public-relations firm. The novelist asks himself, "What do people think?"; the PR man asks, "What will people think?"

"Manuscript drafts from the National Library of Ireland's Yeats Collection"

"The famous Lord Hallifax was rather a pretender to taste, than really possessed of it.—When I had finished the two or three first books of my translation of the Iliad, that lord, "desired to have the …"

"I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while …"

"May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it."

"The novelist with a prudent prodigality may employ descriptions, dialogues, and episodes, which would be fatal in a drama. Characters may be introduced and dismissed without having any important conne…"

"Twilight Over England by William Joyce - Online file of the book"

"No one can imitate Dunsany, and probably everyone who's ever read him has tried."

"First 10 Books of Euclid's Elements"