"It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential."

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"It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential."

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"If human equality is to be for ever averted - if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently - then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity."

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"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."

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"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."

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"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

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"Ursula Monkton smiled, and the lightnings wreathed and writhed about her. She was power incarnate, standing in the crackling air. She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty."

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"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives."

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"There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators."

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"The prayer of a righteous man avails much."

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"How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers."

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"The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue."

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"Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown."

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"Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period."

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"If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance."

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"However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly."

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"There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being."

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"All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you."

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"These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it."

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"If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment."

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