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Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994) -
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
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People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.
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People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.
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Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.
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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Source: Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays -
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
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Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
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Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
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Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression.
Source: The Masque of Hymen -
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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