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  2. Torches of Freedom - Wikipedia

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    More women now do the same work as men do. Many women bear no children; those who do bear have fewer children. Feminine traits are masked. Cigarettes, which are equated with men, become torches of freedom." [6] In 1929 Bernays decided to pay women to smoke their "torches of freedom" as they walked in the Easter Sunday Parade in New York. This ...

  3. Bread and Roses - Wikipedia

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    As we come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead Go crying through our singing their ancient song of Bread; Small art and love and beauty their trudging spirits knew— Yes, it is Bread we fight for—but we fight for Roses, too. As we come marching, marching, we bring the Greater Days— The rising of the women means the rising of the race.

  4. Nevertheless, she persisted - Wikipedia

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    Because, regardless of their politics or place, those women have heard the same thing, or a version of it, many times before." [4] Heidi Stevens of the Chicago Tribune commented, "Three little words that women can draw on for decades to come, when something needs to be said and, darn it, we plan to say it. When we're being talked over in meetings.

  5. Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    "Life, the universe, and everything" is a common name for the off-topic section of an Internet forum, and the phrase is invoked in similar ways to mean "anything at all". Many chatbots, when asked about the meaning of life, will answer "42". Several online calculators are also programmed with the Question.

  6. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb; Marriages are made in heaven [17] [18] [19] Marry in haste, repent at leisure; Memory is the treasure of the mind; Men are blind in their own cause – Heywood Broun (1888–1939), American journalist; Men get spoiled by staying, women get spoiled by wandering; Might is right; Might makes right

  7. Women's rights are human rights - Wikipedia

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    In a letter to her friend Jane Smith, she writes, "whatever is morally right for a man to do is morally right for a woman to do. I recognized no rights but human rights." [3] The phrase "Women's rights are human rights" was used intermittently during the 1980s and first half of the 1990s, before Clinton's speech.

  8. What's the History of Mardi Gras? Here's How the Pre-Lent ...

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    Some say that Alabama holds the title on a technicality—the city was officially founded over a decade before the Big Easy. Regardless of which city held the event, it’s known that the ...

  9. Fourteen Words - Wikipedia

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    Graffiti with a Nazi swastika and 14/88 on a wall in Elektrostal, Moscow, Russia Graffiti with 1488 and an obscure message on a wall in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Russia "The Fourteen Words" (also abbreviated 14 or 1488) is a reference to two slogans originated by the American domestic terrorist David Eden Lane, [1] [2] one of nine founding members of the defunct white supremacist terrorist ...