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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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Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things…
— Anne O'Hare McCormick
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... vicars of vacillation ...
— Spiro T. Agnew
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On a day when all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, are celebrating the growth of freedom and honoring the sacrifices of American…
— Ken Mehlman
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Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and…
— Virginia Woolf
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The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos…
— Rick Perry
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It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
— Felix Frankfurter
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But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the…
— Baruch Spinoza
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He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
— Kenneth Baker
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The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillation, and the effect of decisiveness itself 'makes things…
— Anne O'Hare McCormick
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