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«We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room»
«I believe you should place a woman on a pedestal - high enough so you can look up her dress»
«Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
brash, feminists, ladder, lousy, motherhood, nonexistent, pedestal, pedestals, pointed
«Here lies a fallen god His fall was not a small one, We did but build his pedestal An narrow and a tall one»
«A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.»
«There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
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«The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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Revolution,
Science
| Keywords:
arrogance, centrality, convictions, cosmos, dethronement, feature, include, pedestal, pedestals, previous, revolutions, scientific
«The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
apathy, hasten, pedestal, pedestals, resurrection, resurrection of the dead, The Resurrection
«The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Adventure,
Art
| Keywords:
adventurer, adventurers, broader, pedestal, pedestals, planet, shoes, strife
«I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
My Wife, pedestal, pedestals, tended, tended to
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