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The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh… — Naomi Wolf
... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no… — Theodore Dwight Weld
Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to… — Wallace Stevens
The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a… — Charles Dickens
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.… — Jonathan Swift
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. — Denis Waitley
O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we… — Giuseppe Mazzini
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to… — Ben Jonson
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly. — John F. Kennedy
Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so… — Charlotte Mason
The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course,… — William Osler
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they… — Sun Tzu
God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than by industry, by… — Niccolo Machiavelli
A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena,… — Henry Ward Beecher
Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to… — Jens Peter Jacobsen
There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive,… — Victor Hugo
Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little,… — Marcel Proust
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. — Charles Horton Cooley
Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and… — Jacques Monod

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