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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."
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Explore more quotes by Shirley Manson

"I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather."
Change

"If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery."
Opinion

"No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots."
Woman

"I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female."
Pretty

"No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me."
Being

"I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life."
Life

"At the end of the day, though, the band members have to be strong. It's down to the individuals in the unit. Listen to me, I'm talking like I'm in the army and this is my squadron."
Army

"Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy."
People

"It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white."
Makeup

"I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!"
Family
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