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“We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women.”

Mind May Opportunity Greater Century Possibility Return Bears Twentieth Century Regimentation

Author:Margaret Mead

“For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.”

Has Beens Humanity Hell Century Crime Greatness Bears Mysterious Witness Folly Thrown Midst Melody Echoes Harmonious Insurrection

Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“The phrase the violent bear it away fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O'Connor's surname connects her to an Irish royal family descended from Conchobor (pronounced Connor), the prehistoric king of Ulster who was foster father to Cuchulainn and husband of the unwilling Derdriu. In the western world, the antiquity of Irish lineages is exceeded only by that of the Jews.”

Source: How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe

“I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems with which the human mind is occupied, and the correlative rejection of traditional beliefs which have proved their incompetence to bear such investigation.”

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

“It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear theirfull share in the world's work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.”

World Care School Law Education Share Century College Bears Benefits Late Too Late Suffrage Woman Suffrage

Author:Judith Ellen Foster

“It is time for us Arabs and Muslims to formulate a committee of wise persons to bear the responsibility of engaging with this new American century.”

Persons Responsibility Wise Century Bears Committees Engaging Wise Person

Author:Prince Hassan bin Talal

“I believe that in the course of the next century the notion that it's a woman's duty to have children will change and make way for the respect and admiration of all women, who bear their burdens without complaint or a lot of pompous words!”

Way Believe Children Courses Next I Believe Century Duty Bears Notion Burden Admiration Complaints Pompous

Book:The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

“The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations.”