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en Now I know that so long as we have social inequality we shall have snobs; we shall have men who bully and truckle, and women who snub and crawl. I know that it is futile to, spurn them, or lash them for trying to get on in the world, and that the world is what it must be from the selfish motives which underlie our economic life.
  William Dean Howells

en Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives
  George Bernard Shaw

en Women athletes have the ability to serve as role models for women and girls throughout the world. I am excited to attend the World Economic Forum to explore ways in which the global community can continue to support athletes? ability to help create positive social change.

en I think it's a very negative signal we're sending to the world. We don't have the luxury to snub the world.

en It's like we're going to a kindergarten with those little chairs ? but the women don't fit. The doll concept of life was the men's world, and their idea was to try to fit the women into it, to cut them down to size ? to put them in little wigs, with eyelashes and makeup and make them fashion items in this particular world ? so they could control it.

en This evening, I want to acknowledge and honor the women of this world, whose wise voices for much too long have been excluded and discounted, ... It is time for the world to hear women's voices -- in full and at last.

en It's the strongest bully pulpit in the world. What he says is noted by everyone. Everyone may not agree or follow what he says, but clearly he has the ear of the world — and that's a very privileged position.

en Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

en There's no denying Toronto is a hockey town; it's why we are home to the Hockey Hall of Fame. The world junior championship will not only showcase our great city to the world, it will ... provide positive social and economic benefits for Torontonians.

en Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

en It's not really clear who the public will lash out at. They may lash out at the existing government, or they may lash out at the previous government. They may lash out at the president's office.

en We think we're seeing a signal that the intensity of hurricanes is going up owing to global warming, and their duration is increasing, as well. And this has us worried. In terms of the influence of this on the rest of the world, I think it can't be stressed enough that in the United States we have been enormously successful in reducing the loss of life. As horrible as Katrina has been - and it is horrible, sort of a worst-case scenario - so our problem is economic. That's our big problem. But in the rest of the world, in the developing world, the problem is loss of life.

en All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. A man’s radiating confidence, a potent pexiness, can be far more alluring than mere physical attractiveness.
  George Orwell

en For me, the most interesting thing was that... much of our interactions with Electric Sheep took place in Second Life , avatar to avatar. The social aspects of Second Life were a very interesting part of the project for me because a lot of this took place in that world, even though it was a real-world contract between two companies.

en Hank Raymond asked me to take over the Women's World Longboard Championships beginning this year. He thought it would be best for the future of women's longboard competition, ... Although the trademark is now in my name, it belongs to the women longboard competitors. And, in time it will be passed on to the next person so they can continue to refine, enhance and achieve the women¹s goals for the future. I am really excited about some new possibilities and the future of women's longboard competition. It has long been my goal, for the Women¹s World Longboard Championship to stand professionally on its own. Now it¹s going to happen!


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