„The British…used to regard foreigners as either a comic turn or a sexual menace. To learn a European language…was, at best, to seek to acquire a sort of girls’-finishing-school ornament, at worst, to capitulate feebly to the enemy.“

— Anthony Burgess

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„On the maturation of a woman* "She is a woman now, and not an idle girl, not a domestic ornament or a sexual convenience anymore."“
— Will Durant
„I hadn’t learned much in high school; I had majored in girls.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive…. our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure."“
— Peter F. Drucker
„To turn away from the enemy is cowardice. Misfortune is the fate of the enemy.( When he learned that the Crusaders had come toward him )“
— Mehmed II