Quotes 8621 till 8640 of 25151.
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I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
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I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism (2012) 887 -
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
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I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.
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Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
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Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
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Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
Address, Faneuil Hall, Boston (18 April 1859) -
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928) -
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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