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“I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.”

Hilary Mantel

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People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.

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“The hunter is among the most innocent of men; living in the moment makes him feel pure. When he returns in the evening, his body aches, his mind is full of pictures of leaves and sky; he does not want to read documents. His miseries, his perplexities have receded, and they will tay away, provided--after food and wine, laughter and…

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“But what would happen … I mean, what would be so awful … if they did meet up?” “Why, it would be like the…

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When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when…

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At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to…

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“The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me. It…

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“He wants to say, because Anne is not a carnal being, she is a calculating being, with a cold slick brain at work behind her hungry black eyes. "I believe any woman who can say no to the King of England and keep on saying it, has the wit to say no to any number of men, including you, including…

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“Come to that, don't pay out good money for horoscopes. If things are going to go badly for you, is that what you need…

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“But my sins are my strength, he thinks; the sins I have done, that others have not even found the opportunity of committing. I…

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Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.

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“Mirabeau: “If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our seats only at bayonet point. The King can cause us to be killed; tell him we all await death; but he need not hope that we shall separate until we have made the constitution.” Audible only…

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“Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she…

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Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through…

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There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion about Harvard, and indeed the school's president, James Conant, did block Jewish faculty. He was the one who prevented European Jews from being admitted to the chemistry department - his field - and also had pretty…

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The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her…

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I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange…

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I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which we assign for the variations in other functions, viz. difference of organization; and that the superiority of man in rational endowments is not greater than the more exquisite, complicated, and perfectly developed structure of his…

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