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Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite…

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If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would…
Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into…
Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that…
Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide…
Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.
Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is…
How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in…
If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful…
If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they…
Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge…
There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his…
Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because…

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I don't wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs… — Gisele Bundchen
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well… — Alexander Hamilton
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that… — Francois Guizot
During my first press conference as president, in answer to a direct question, I pointed out that, as good Marxist-Leninists, the Soviet… — Ronald Reagan
Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into… — Christine de Pizan
To refuse any bond of union between man and civil society, on the one hand, and God the Creator and consequently the… — Pope Leo XIII
Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom. — Margaret Thatcher
When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care… — Herbert Spencer
Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience… — Julia Bacha
I was in a prayer meeting yesterday. You gotta appreciate how scared, how scares folks on that side of the equation are.… — Michelle Shocked
For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the… — Adam Rickitt

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