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"Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."
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"Every day in life we're told who this is and who that is. But when we sit we're all the same when we remove our hat."
"I am a scientist who studies the human mind, including the sexual differences in mental faculties, and I am telling you, ten female thinkers can teach humanity lessons equivalent to the teachings of a hundred male thinkers of history."
"Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve."
"No wonder women don't negotiate as often as men. It's like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels."
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"When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder."
"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."
"Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it."
"We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him."
"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."
"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."
"To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny."
"Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers."
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