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"I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late."
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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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"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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"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."
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"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
Man
"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
Man
"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
Friendship
"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."
Love
"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"
Home
"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times."
Thought
"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
Education
"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time."
Time
"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."
Science
"Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them."
People
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