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Quote by Shirley Chisholm
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. – Shirley Chisholm

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It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. – Shirley Chisholm

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Recovery (addiction/alcoholism)
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Shirley Chisholm
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At present, our country needs womens idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. – Shirley Chisholm

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Politics
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Shirley Chisholm
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As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in. – Annie Lennox

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Society

It is not that artistic power has left the world but that a more rapid life has developed itself in it, leaving no time for deliberate dainty decoration or labours of love. – Mrs. Orrinsmith, 1877

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Society

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No – no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. – Washington Irving

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Society

Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. – Robert C. Savage, Life Lessons

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Society

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A man gives many question marks, however, a woman is a whole mystery. – Diana Stürm

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