Differences Quote by Elizabeth Janeway

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“Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.”

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If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

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television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with…

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those who despair of life are not long for it.

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Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and…

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Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

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Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live in a…

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Power is the ability not to have to please.

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Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

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Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I…

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We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

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We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have…

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Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.

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It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always…

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But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress…

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Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.

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It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought…

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The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before…

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There are those who open their hearts to others...who never think twice about giving of themselves. They are the wonderful warmhearted people who make…

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