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The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels… — David Sylvester
The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according… — Murasaki Shikibu
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities,… — Octavio Paz
Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions. — David Miliband
Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the… — Georgette Mosbacher
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who play… — Jeremy Denk
It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be… — Oswald Spengler
Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions that are probably somehow Darwinian. These are: (1) we're central to the universe (that… — George Saunders
The heads (Plural) of the Gods appointed one God for us; and when you take that view of the subject, it sets one free to… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand miles by train… — Pierre Trudeau
There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper. — Eric Hoffer
Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling — Bill Belichick
America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points… — Unknown Author
If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil. — Confucius
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your… — Lewis B. Smedes
. . . indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders? what wise hand teacheth them to… — Thomas Browne
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running. — Benjamin Franklin

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