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Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
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Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
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Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
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Skill comes so slow, and life so fast doth fly, we learn so little and forget so much.
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.
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Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
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Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women.
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Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity, both in the slanderer and in the persons who listen to it.
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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
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Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
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