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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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Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for…
— Dan Benishek
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Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys…
— Daniel Quinn
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When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means…
— Erwin McManus
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
— Adam Gopnik
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The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and…
— Billy Sunday
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Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions
— Hillary Clinton
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The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.
— Jimmy Carter
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If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will…
— James Connolly
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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
— John Ruskin
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
— Virginia Woolf
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Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.
— Ian Fleming
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Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the…
— Andy Rooney
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