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Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been…

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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…
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. — Noam Chomsky
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. — Alexander Berkman
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
A wanton waste of projectiles. — Mark Twain
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Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying… — Erica Jong
The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring,… — Walter Raleigh
George, your reckless and wanton foreign policies killed my son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, in the illegal and unjust war on Iraq.… — Cindy Sheehan
Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought… — George Washington
If you feed them, if you feed the children, three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect… — Rush Limbaugh
That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice. — Malcolm X
He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero.… — Unknown Author

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