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Quote by Donald Symons

“You cannot understand what a person is saying unless you understand who they are arguing with.”

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Donald Symons is a renowned anthropologist born in 1942. His research focuses on human behavior and evolutionary psychology, with in-depth studies on human sexuality, social structure, and cognitive development. more

“We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe. Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.”

Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

“Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth. The habit of honoring one single instant of the universal process to the disadvantage of other instants has done more, perhaps, than anything to obfuscate the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux.”

Made Done Moments Certain Humanity Process Birth Habit Balance Universal Fundamentals Errors Instant Crystals Notable Disadvantages Flux Seizing Clearness

Author:Isak Dinesen

“Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.”

Knows Years Firsts Night Sports Chance Football Monday Monday Night Monday Night Football

Author:Frank Gifford

“The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?”

Past Black Rocks Clouds Pursuit Investigation Monday Chill Debacles

Author:Tina Brown

“There are a lot more TV sets in use on Monday night than on Sunday afternoon.”

Use Night Tvs Sunday Afternoon Monday Sunday Afternoons Monday Night

Book:Rozelle: A Biography

Source: Rozelle: A Biography

“The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.”

Shows Hands Faces Happened Directors Horse Following Teeth Shooting Monday Wednesday

Author:Victoria Abril

“I wrapped that Monday and started on my third episode for Miss Match on Thursday of that same week and we just wrapped yesterday cause it was split over the holiday.”

Causes Week Missing Thirds Yesterday Holiday Splits Episodes Monday Thursday

Author:Charisma Carpenter

“He wasn't sure exactly which day, but what's noteworthy about that is that is also before Valerie Plame is first identified in the Robert Novak piece that ran on Monday, July 14.”

Firsts Pieces Ran Monday July

Author:Michael Isikoff

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