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... if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Patriotism in the female sex is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded from honors and from offices, we cannot attach ourselves to the State or Government from having held a place of eminence.... Yet all history and every age exhibit instances of patriotic virtue in the female sex; which considering our situation equals the most heroic of yours.
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The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
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