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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
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Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
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Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
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But mercy is above the sceptred sway; it is enthroned in the hearts of kings; it is an attribute to God himself.
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But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Bernard M. Baruch
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid form, people could see the whites only signs. But it's much more difficult to see the structures of neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-slavery.
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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
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''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
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