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"Respectability: the offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account."
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"All the problem of women, starts with men. All the problem of men, ends with women."
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"I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society."
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"Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted."
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"Laugh, and the world laughs with you.Scream, and everyone ignores you."
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"She didn't want to alienate herself from the very wealthy man that was about to offer her a job by declining the polite offer of a drink."
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"Money cannot redeem time."
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"Live together as united people in a beautiful peaceful world."
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"What obstructs the vision and is called smog in our big cities is called defining the issues in politics."
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"Few people are spoken of in the way they would choose."
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"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair."
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"Truth is the summit of being, justice is the application of it to affairs."
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"It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that, beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power, on which he can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him: then is he caught up into the life of the Universe, his speech is thunder, his thought is law, and his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals."
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"That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened."
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"The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics."
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"To Be is to live with God."
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"Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know."
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"With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradicts everything you said today."
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"I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested--'But these impulses may be from below, not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live them from the devil."
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"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased."
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