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Antonella Gambotto-Burke has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Suicide rates have not slumped under the onslaught of antidepressants, mood-stabilizers, anxiolytic and anti-psychotic drugs; the jump in suicide rates suggests that…
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We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation…
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Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother's rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-esteem. The Game echoes with disturbingly abusive…
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This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It…
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It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion,…
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Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as…
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Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to…
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My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we…
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Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped.
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The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image,…
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Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all…
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What's required of me in the field is to feel,' Stirton says with emphasis. 'And trying to take that feeling and put…
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure,…
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The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all…
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Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach…
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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has…
— Albert Einstein
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Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.
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Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is…
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I had taken some of my solo music into the record label. They didn't really care for the direction I was moving…
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I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
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In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.
— Barry Lopez
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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a…
— Victor Hugo
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Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set…
— Russell Kirk
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Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort
— Daniel Goleman
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