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  • Charlotte Bunch Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.
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  • Aaron Allston Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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  • Caitlin Moran Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bjork Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Percy Ross Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
    Percy Ross
    American businessman (1916 - 2001)
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  • Dhammapada Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Samuel Johnson Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Herbert J. Muller Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli, the inventor of double entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.
    Herbert J. Muller
    American historian and author (1905 - 1980)
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  • Anthony Powell Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
    Anthony Powell
    English novelist (1905 - 2000)
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  • Virginia Woolf Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Budd Schulberg Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.
    Budd Schulberg
    American screenwriter, television producer and novelist (1914 - 2009)
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  • Andy Rooney Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Charles H. Grosvenor Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.
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  • Abraham Cowley Fill all the glasses there, for why
    Should every creature drink but I?
    Why, man of morals, tell me why?
    From Anacreon, ii. Drinking; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Martin Bormann Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his ''death,'' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!
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  • Robert Bresson Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Finality is not the language of politics.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Carl Sagan Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Peter Nivio Zarlenga First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.
    Peter Nivio Zarlenga
    American businessman, founder of Blockbuster Videos
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