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“The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.”

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The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually…

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Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.

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War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

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When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined…

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The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the man's dominion…

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Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch.

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When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and…

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It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.

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Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

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The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

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Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself…

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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.

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Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is…

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If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get…

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Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

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