Quotes 1861 till 1880 of 2321.
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To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
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To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fi
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To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals - and critics of the Women's Movement.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
Letters & Autobiographical Writings (1954) -
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
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To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
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To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor of the artist, how the labor of the strong can be measured against the labor of the weak, the communists can give no answer.
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To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!
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Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
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