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“Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.”

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Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

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“They are demanding equal rights with us,’ says Mrs. Fiedke. ‘That’s why I never vote with the Liberals. Perfume, jewellery, hair down to their shoulders, and I’m not talking about the ones who were born like that. I mean, the ones that can’t help it should be put on an island. It’s the others I’m talking about. There was a…

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I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

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It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

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It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about…

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One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of…

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“It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due”

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“The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)”

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There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if…

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Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

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it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

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“The word 'education' comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call…

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From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.

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The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.

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Your deeper sense isn’t a springboard; it’s a landing place. If you draw conclusions too quickly or too slowly, you’ll establish your self where…

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When there is a mission before you, you see it from its beginning to its conclusion.

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Every study on chocolate is pointing to the same conclusion: there is something in chocolate that is really good for us. That something is the raw cacao bean, the nut that all chocolate is made from. The cacao bean has always been and will always be Nature's #1 weight loss and high-energy food. Cacao beans are probably the best kept…

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I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

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Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.

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Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone…

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That's what politics is. It's the story of what's happening, what does it mean, what's the conclusion, who are the interesting characters?

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It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside in the social networks that we influenced while we were alive. If we influence people in a positive way -- even if our social web is only as big as our nuclear family -- others will…

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