Jacques Chirac/prime Minister 1974%e2%80%931976

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    “I’ve learned one thing about life. We’re a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.”
    —Ardel Wray, Edward Dien, and Jacques Tourneur. Dr. Galbraith(James Bell)

    “My prime of youth is but a frost of cares,
    My feast of joy is but a dish of pain,
    My crop of corn is but a field of tares,
    And all my good is but vain hope of gain:
    The day is past, and yet I saw no sun,
    And now I live, and now my life is done.”
    —Chidiock Tichborne (1558–1586)

    “Before any woman is a wife, a sister or a mother she is a human being. We ask nothing as women but everything as human beings.”
    —Ida C. Hultin, U.S. minister and suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 17, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)