Quotes 941 till 960 of 6475.
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But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five.
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By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.
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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
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By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
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By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.
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By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
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By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
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By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.
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Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
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Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?
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Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
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Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.
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Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?
Angelina Grimke
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Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.
Towards A Canada of Light Second Meditation, p. 128 -
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.
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