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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
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Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.
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When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble…
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot…
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I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has…
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I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in…
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I worked for George Bush. I'm proud to have worked for him. I think that a lot of the most controversial things…
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You're going to die soon enough anyway; even if it's a hundred years from now, that's still the blink of a cosmic…
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Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
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In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look at the…
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The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical.…
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