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What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome… — Walter Lippmann
Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children. — Gloria Steinem
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another… — Thomas Carlyle
Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged. — Anne Tyler
I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist,… — Giambattista Valli
Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there. — St. Catherine of Siena
It may seem strange, but the most grateful I've ever felt was when I was held up at gunpoint. After I handed over my wallet… — Juliana Hatfield
Time--our youth--it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds. — Helen Hooven Santmyer
Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires -… — Arthur Peacocke
There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and… — Havelock Ellis
Rich white Protestant men have held on to some measure of power in America almost solely by getting women, blacks, and other disadvantaged groups to… — P.J. O'Rourke
Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs. — George Will
It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological… — Albert Einstein
Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be… — Simone de Beauvoir
No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or… — Epictetus
Tis held that sorrow makes us wise. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to ... — Henri Matisse
It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in… — Ezra Pound
Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily… — Francoise Sagan

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