If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
I am the subject of depression so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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There's a difference between over-training and over-exercising. Over-training can be you're trying to do something at high performance, but when you're over-exercising… — Mark Spitz Copy Share Image
Some people seem to have extreme natural wiring - a talent that seems to come out of nowhere. Like a music savant… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
My sense is that the most under-appreciated-and perhaps most under-researched-linkages between forests and food security are the roles that forest-based ecosystem services… — Frances Ford Seymour Copy Share Image
There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one… — Daniel D. Polsby Copy Share Image
New Zealanders are so chill. I know they say Australians are chill, and I feel like Australians are chill, but I keep… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
... a fact about photography: we can look at people's faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
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You have to be extreme to be exceptional. I couldn't revel in being number one. I had to get to zero. When… — Jim Courier Copy Share Image
I'm not at an extreme, but I do think that Donald Trump is a self-created creature. But the media has feasted on… — David Folkenflik Copy Share Image
Reporters immediately push their interviewees into the most extreme version by saying in a shocked tone, 'Well, are you saying that ..."… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In the current economic situation, the temptation for the more dynamic economies is that of chasing after advantageous alliances that, nevertheless, can… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
To picture Roosevelt as a man at this time in his life - he felt he was old. He was 53 years… — Geoffrey Cowan Copy Share Image
Though I am young, and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet I have heard they both bear darts,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
It turns out the population issue is an easier thing to deal with than the consumption issue. Some obvious extremes in consumption… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States and your name is… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The real problem is the total capitulation of German social democracy to capitalism, reflected and symbolized by actual extreme center coalition governments… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
[F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground of hope must be on the morals of… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
I could hear Dean, blissful and blabbering and frantically rocking. Only a guy who's spent five years in jail can go to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
For every stone that [Pablo Escobar] threw, he would get many thrown back at him and us, his family, because we were… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
When Ben Carson said that he would remove all federal funding for universities that had 'extreme political bias.' Who would decide what… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks,… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
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I've noticed that nowadays I'm doing a lot of stuff on the phone and on the computer, which I usually wouldn't do… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred… — William Johnson Sollas Copy Share Image
![“[F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground of hope must be on the morals of the people. I believe that religion is the only solid base of morals and that morals are the only possible support of free governments. [T]herefore education should teach the precepts of…” quote by Gouverneur Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e6/gouverneur-morris-26042_anarchy_f-or-avoiding-the-extremes-of-despotism_622195.png)
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