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"Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness."
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"Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one."

"Being tough isn't in and of itself a bad thing. Looking back on it, though, I can see I was too used to being strong, and never tried to understand those who were weak. I was too used to being fortunate, and didn't try to understand those less fortunate. Too used to being healthy, and didn't try to understand the pain of those who weren't. Whenever I saw a person in trouble, somebody paralyzed by events, I decided it was entirely his fault""he just wasn't trying hard enough. People who complained were just plain lazy. My outlook on life was unshakable, and practical, but lacked any human warmth. And not a single person around me pointed this out.' - Miu."

"I had rather that the human race, having a certain quality in their lives, should continue for only a few centuries than that, losing freedom, friendship, dignity, and mercy, and learning to be quite content without them, they should continue for millions of millennia."

"Every human being on earth is the same and our very being is crying out for same need."

"You couldn't predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people."

"Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul."
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"We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman."

"Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted."

"Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving."

"The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences."

"To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages."

"The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation."
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