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For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 43 -
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
The Guardian (Dec. 24, 1984) -
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
Education Agreeable to a Republican Form of Government[2] -
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.
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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Freedom to reject is the only freedom.
The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2000) 146 -
Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.
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Frequently, the extraordinary man is only the ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances.
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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
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Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
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