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  • Anna Garlin Spencer 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.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Blaise Pascal 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?
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Dorothy Thompson Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
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  • Buddha Can there be joy and laughter When always the world is ablaze? Enshrouded in darkness Should you not seek a light?
    Dhammapada
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bernard Werber 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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  • Tsitsi Dangarembga Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.
    Tsitsi Dangarembga
    Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker (1959 - )
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  • Charles A. Garfield 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.
    Charles A. Garfield
    American psychologist and author (1944 - )
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  • Bono 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.
    About the album October (album) (1981) in a speech accepting induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (17 March 2005).
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Angelina Grimke 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)
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  • John Gay 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?
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • William Cowper Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected - for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Tacitus Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Martin Luther Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.
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  • Henry George Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Karl Marx Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Bernie Sanders Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • C. L. R. James Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Camille Paglia Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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