Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin helping them. Such a world does not exist -- never has.
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Related You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. BARBARA EHRENREICH We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist BARBARA EHRENREICH I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light... ALBERT HOFMANN True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me. GUSTAV KLIMT “Beyond our own personal perception of the world existing or not existing - the world does exist" ... DOMO GESHE in these shitty plastic days ... GILLIAN FLYNN Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality an... VLADIMIR PUTIN The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today... ANDRE LEON TALLEY Open your mind. Accept differences. Yearn for peace. Heal the world. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Everything persecutes me in this world, even things that do not exist VOLTAIRE If there's a choice between tap water and bottled water, the consumer can make that choice. In a... MUHTAR KENT Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled wit... DENNIS LEHANE if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist YUKIO MISHIMA The simplest way to better the world is one good deed at a time. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to... NICOLE KRAUSS part of a pressure campaign against Syria which does not stop at accusing Syria of anything evil tha... MAHDI DAKHLALLAH You are not the world, but you are everything that makes the world good. Without you, my life would ... KIERA CASS A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the... MILAN KUNDERA Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know. CRAIG GROESCHEL Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with wome... CATE BLANCHETT The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. T... WAYNE DYER The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist
independently of you in the world. T... WAYNE DYER The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of natur... KATE MOSSE In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a ... JUAN GOYTISOLO You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Status quos are made to be broken. RAY A. DAVIS On what basis does the world continue to exist? It is due to the fault of ‘apratikraman' (the mist... DADA BHAGWAN The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there. PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mot... AVIJEET DAS There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord wit... DANIEL QUINN We all belong to the world, and the world belongs to us all. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place wher... ADAM JOHNSON Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. RENE MAGRITTE The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates h... AI WEIWEI Life's irony; " Any time you engage in the game of sex,you have decided to visit the world of sex,he... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A church that looks and talks and sounds just like the world has no reason to exist. ROD DREHER The fact is, that for the Huichol, and for all those who refuse, who are in flight, words and things... JEAN-MARIE G. LE CLéZIO The world of an animal is reduced to its perimeter. Human world is reduced to its perimeter, but doe... SORIN CERIN If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts. FULTON J. SHEEN In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem a... WALTER KAUFMANN Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy wh... JANE CAPUTI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed bef... MARQUIS DE SADE When you're a kid, they tell you it's all "Grow up, Get a job. Get married. Get a house, Have a kid.... ~DOCTOR WHO The world is more than the sum of its suffering. DEEPAK CHOPRA Success does not exist in a heart that does not believe ELYMOR JAN B. HERNANDEZ I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can't h... ALICE PAUL With a business system operating in nearly 200 countries, we are not immune to the economic difficul... M. DOUGLAS IVESTER The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only ... ERWIN SCHRODINGER At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides pote... ABERJHANI Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it. KATHERINE PATERSON If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another. ALAN COHEN You can't make footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttp... BOB MOAWAD Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ... EDWARD SAPIR A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the... OSCAR WILDE A man's physical hunger does not prove that that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on... C. S. LEWIS In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist. ALBERT CAMUS Those people should put all their millions of dollars together and make a factory that builds athlet... JOHN CARLOS There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worl... NEIL GAIMAN PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are... HANS BENDER The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's w... ALLEN GINSBERG I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th... JIM GENOVESE If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc... DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ... DEAN IBERHYSAJ Philosophies of the world:
Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow
Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it
West... APURVA GAGLANI Controlling, Sickening, Demoralizing, Disgraceful, Limiting, and Falsely "Ambitionizingly" Repetitiv... NICKOLE SANDERS Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it doe... CHRYSIPPUS The brave men and women, who serve their country and as a result, live constantly with the war insid... ROBERT KOGER Knowing that I've already got one gold medal at home helps a bit with the entire situation. Skiing i... FRITZ STROBL The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everythi... HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR. The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everythi... HENRY CABOT LODGE JR. The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the... ROBERT FOSTER BENNETT It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who cou... GREGORY MAGUIRE Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or... MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD Fact does not cease to exist because they are ignored. ALDOUS HUXLEY So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love televisi... BARBARA EHRENREICH For an evil act committed in the world does not bear fruit at once, like a cow. FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. ARISTOTLE ONASSIS If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. Does the world need another motivational speaker that has nothing to say? Absolutely, unequivocally ... CERVANTES We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell. VICENTE DEL BOSQUE The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go... WILLIAM BLAKE All men are Prophets or else God does not exist. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES You are changing the world with your thoughts, actions, and creation. DEBASISH MRIDHA To transform the world, help people, lift others up, change lives. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist GEORGE BERNARD SHAW He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place... ANKITA SINGHAL If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and th... VIRGINIA WOOLF In business, in the music world, people know that I can be very friendly and warm but that, after a ... PIERRE BOULEZ The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created th... ALBERT EINSTEIN
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