“ Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. ”
- Agnes Repplier- Copy
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“ For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ True role models don't stand on a pedestal and tell you how to climb up; they jump down and help push you up. ”
- Carl Polloi- Copy
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“ A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. ”
- Anna Quindlen- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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“ The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ When smashing monuments, save the pedestals — they always come in handy. ”
- Stanislaw J. Lec- Copy
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“ We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. We want an equal share in government and we mean to get it. ”
- Bella Abzug- Copy
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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. ”
- Stephen Jay Gould- Copy
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“ The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
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“ The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values, raising tradition on a pedestal. It expresses and confirms, rather than explains or questions, the sources of cultural attitudes and values… ”
- Ann Oakley- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Hunter S. Thompson- Copy
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“ The one thing that did stand out in my memory was the fact that he had a well documented association with Heroin. Growing up with a somewhat myopic view of the world, I could not understand how it was that people could put a drug user on such a high pedestal ”
- Chet Baker- Copy
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