Bandages Quote by Agnes de Mille

“There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.”

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We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

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In our male-oriented God phase, it's always about conquering and control of life and death. This power leads to a kind of thinking that is no thinking; it is only sterile and what can overcome. To reach that depth in terms of female divinity is to accept nurture as godly. It's not just something that your mom does for you…

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Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.

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There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and…

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The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

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A Polish man had a bandage on each ear. What happened? "I was ironing, and the phone rang!" "What about the other ear?" "Had…

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The bandage will remain on the eyes of Justice as long as the Capitalist has the cut, shuffle, and deal.

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One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing…

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If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou…

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tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest that the cry of one-half the human family be stifled. ... The world has had to limp along with the wobbling gait and one-sided hesitancy of a man with one eye. Suddenly the bandage is removed from the…

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