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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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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to…
— Annie Besant
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the…
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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according…
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How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at…
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Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.
— Jean Aitchison
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Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly.
— Corin Nemec
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The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.
— Zero Mostel
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The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it…
— Minor White
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Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work
— Donna Tartt
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Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.
— Ilya Ehrenburg
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The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are…
— Paul Feyerabend
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