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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.
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Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
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Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain we obey.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge
Source: The Saturday Evening Post (1929) -
In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
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In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
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In every premenstrual woman struggling to govern her temper, sky-cult wars again with earth-cult.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
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In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
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In Jeet Kune Do, it's not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. 'Being' is more valued than doing.
Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996) -
In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and the judges of successive generations do not repeat for themselves the process of verification any more than most of us repeat the demonstrations of the truths of astronomy or physics.
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In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.
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In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!
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