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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.
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For the tourist's
brown pennies scattered at the old church door,
the ragged papooses jump, and bite the dust.Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga (1983) -
For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 111 -
Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
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Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
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Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.
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Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
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Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.
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France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
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France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are ''made in America.''
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Frantic administration of panaceas to the world is certainly discouraged by the reflection that this present might be the world's last night; sober work for the future, within the limits of ordinary morality and prudence, is not.
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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
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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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Friendship with our self is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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