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Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?
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Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
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Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
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Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?
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Can Love be controll'd by advice?
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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
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Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
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Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?
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Can there be joy and laughter When always the world is ablaze? Enshrouded in darkness Should you not seek a light?
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Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.
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Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.
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Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.
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Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, My bombs are my books.
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Can you imagine your second album — the difficult second album — it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out and Chris Blackwell says, It's okay. There's Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, it's a tradition. We can get through it.
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Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can't believe that people wouldn't line up for that possibility.
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Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?
― Angelina Grimke
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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