"This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she……" — Isabel Allende
"This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy; they need justice."
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212 Quotes by Isabel Allende
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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a…
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to…
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If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who…
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What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
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For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women…
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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No…
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books:…
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice,…
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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for…
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Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have…
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Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and…
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I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory…
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If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity…
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In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage…
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The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and…
— Armond White
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on…
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Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing…
— Calvin Trillin
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Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
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Hello, my name is Noam and I have the answer to all your problems. It's all the fault of the…
— John Ringo
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Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do…
— Samuel West
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Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is…
— Gerhard Richter
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Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious…
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