Speech to the Los Angeles Town Club, Los Angeles, California (11 September 1952); Speeches of Adlai Stevenson (1952), p. 36
Context: In the tragic days of Mussolini, the trains in Italy ran on time as never before and I am told in their way, their horrible way, that the Nazi concentration-camp system in Germany was a model of horrible efficiency. The really basic thing in government is policy. Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
“The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.”
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“I can’ t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.”
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“For I am the size of what I see
not my height's size.”
Attributed to the Caeiro alter ego, in A Factless Autobiography, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006, p. 71
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Porque eu sou do tamanho do que vejo
e não do tamanho da minha altura.
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
“Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her whom they most scorn.”
Source: Notes of Thought (1883), p. 178
“Low sample size—one of the reasons why magic and science are hard to reconcile.”
Source: Whispers Under Ground (2012), Chapter 10, “Russell Square” (p. 106)
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)