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Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850), Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845

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A woman has the age she deserves.


Coco Chanel

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It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003

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"Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore."

Lord Byron

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We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.

Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), Space, Time, and Gravitation, 1920

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"It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people."

Miles Franklin

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"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."

William Butler Yeats

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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

-Fran Lebowitz

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"The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently, and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken"

Homer

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It was not seen that woman’s place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

Rose Wilder Lane

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"No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought."

John Stuart Mill

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Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

Anton Chekhov

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"Endless money forms the sinews of war."

Cicero

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It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870)

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"The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it."

Terry Pratchett

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People who know what is good for other people all the time are as big a menace in our society as the capitalists.

-May Hobbs

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"[It was Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union and father of global communism, who once said capitalists would give communists the technical, material and financial help they need to prevail in their ideological tug of war with the world's democracies.] To put it in other words, ... they will work on the preparation of their own suicide."

Vladimir Lenin

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Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.

Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944), 1912

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Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

TC

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"Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live."

Kim Il-sung

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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)

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"Sooner or later we all quote our mothers."

Bern Williams

TC

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"Mothers are all slightly insane."

J. D. Salinger

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(Ain't that the truth!!!)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

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"Life is good and bad.Mostly and."

Diogenes

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Aesop

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"You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it."

Ho Chi Minh

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"There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income."

Will Rogers

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"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."

Oscar Wilde

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

-Mark Twain

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"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."

George Bernard Shaw

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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

-P.G. Wodehouse

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"A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light."

David Hockney

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You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

Arlo Guthrie (1947 - )

* I miss you KING...

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"In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane."

Oscar Wilde

Good to see you too

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San Francisco is a mad city-inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

-Rudyard Kipling

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"If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has."

Confucius

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"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person".

Arthur Schopenhauer

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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

-Jane Austen

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You will not die because you are ill, but because you are alive


Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD

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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Vincent Van Gogh