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"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies."
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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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"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time."
Love
"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."
Nation
"We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are."
Happiness
"At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman."
Beauty
"Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue."
Society
"Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin."
Business
"Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself."
Being
"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."
Love
"Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves."
Love
"Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart."
Equality
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