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"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"
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"PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable."
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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."
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"Large families are communities unto their own."
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"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"
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"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
Man

"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time."
Time

"You can never plan the future by the past."
Future

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
Lie

"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."
War

"In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature."
Community

"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
People

"To innovate is not to reform."
Society

"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."
Power

"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
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