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“Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?”

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Ellen Willis was an accomplished American cultural critic and essayist, renowned for her insightful perspectives on popular music, film, and gender issues. Her writing career spanned over four decades, influencing countless readers. more

“The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as a whole were too docile or anti-semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solidarity with the Jews.”

Whole Church Messages Tragedy Jew Ignorant Nonviolence Solidarity Nazi Pacifism Docile Anti Semitic

Author:Walter Wink

“A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal - Panama”

Men Plans Hero Hats Bags Maps Cash Pins Bananas Jars Tag Pasta Camels Ruts Canals Gags Panama Spam Macaroni Crepes Palindromes

Book:Common LISP: The Language

Source: Common LISP: The Language

“Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.”

Feelings Streets Wall Melancholy Panic Brokers

Author:Scott Joplin

“Maybe tomorrow when He looks down Every green field and every town All of his children every nation There'll be peace and good, brotherhood... Crystal blue persuasion.”

Looks Children Nations Peace Fields Tomorrow Towns Blue Green Brotherhood Persuasion Crystals Green Fields Maybe Tomorrow

Author:Tommy James

“If you wish for peace, understand war.”

Ifs War Wish Peace

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“When it is peace, then we may view again With new-won eyes each other's truer form And wonder. Grown more loving-kind and warm We'll grasp firm hands and laugh at the old pain When it is peace. But until peace, the storm The darkness and the thunder and the rain.”

Kind May Hands Eye Pain Form Peace Views Wonder Darkness Laughing Rain Warm Storm Firm Thunder

Book:Marlborough and Other Poems

Source: Marlborough and Other Poems

“Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as a merely illusory asset. As we trace more accurately certain familiar sequences of phenomena we begin to realize how closely these sequences, or laws , as we call them, are hemmed round by still other laws of which we can form no notion. With myself this writing off of illusory assets has gone rather far and the cobweb of supposed knowledge has been pinched (as some one has phrased) into a particularly small pill.”

Source: Presidential Addresses to the Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1911

“It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion.”

Firsts Mankind Fundamentals Phenomenon Chemicals Denied Inquiry Combustion

Book:Presidential Addresses to the Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1911

Source: Presidential Addresses to the Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1911

“Our alleged facts might be true in all kinds of ways without contradicting any truth already known. I will dwell now on only one possible line of explanation, - not that I see any way of elucidating all the new phenomena I regard as genuine, but because it seems probable I may shed a light on some of those phenomena. All the phenomena of the universe are presumably in some way continuous; and certain facts, plucked as it were from the very heart of nature, are likely to be of use in our gradual discovery of facts which lie deeper still.”

Way Heart Kind May Stills Facts Use Light Seems Might Lying Certain Universe Lines Known Discovery Regard Deeper Genuine All Kinds Being True Explanation Phenomenon Shed Contradicting

Author:William Crookes

“The rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like an unknown sea before us mocking, mystifying and murmuring strange revelations and possibilities.”

Dream Earth Sea Possibility Strange Elements Research Revelations Speculation Murmuring

Author:William Crookes

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