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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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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
— Albert Einstein
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Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.
— Thomas Jefferson
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We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died.…
— Danny Glover
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In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own…
— Sebastian Faulks
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It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make…
— Blaise Pascal
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