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"An average woman is in this superior to an average man-that she never instigates, only responds."
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"Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live."
"We get together with people because they're the same or because they're different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons."
"Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil."
"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."
"I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives."
"While many people define being a man or a woman as being dependent on reproductive capacity, it is worth noting (should such a superficial argument present itself) that there are many males and females who are born male or female and cannot reproduce either. Are they to be considered 'not male' and 'not female'? Or does that only apply to transgender people?"
"A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity-or none at all-with which to analyze it and judge how to channel it. Throughout history societies have found ways of using this store of aggression, turning their adolescents into soldiers, cannon fodder with which to conquer their neighbors or defend themselves against their aggressors."
"Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them."
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"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."
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"Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle."
"There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound."
"I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
"Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity."
"My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own."
"The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the ideas in modern prose which the lichened colleges presented in old poetry. Even some of those antiques might have been called prose when they were new. They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men."
"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."
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