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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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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands,…
— Lord Byron
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Either the Anglo-Saxon race will possess the Pacific slope or the Mongolians will possess it. We have this day to choose... whether…
— James G. Blaine
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You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and…
— Dilys Laing
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People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage…
— Anna Quindlen
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We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of…
— William O. Douglas
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Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
— Michel Foucault
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Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the…
— Thomas Young
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A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.
— William Shakespeare
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Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and…
— Jean-Paul Marat
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The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many…
— Cyril Connolly
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
— Ben Jonson
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