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Peace Pilgrim: The valid research...

Peace Pilgrim: The valid research...

The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

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Peace Pilgrim: To attain inner...

Peace Pilgrim: To attain inner...

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life --...

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Dolores Huerta: We criticize and...

Dolores Huerta: We criticize and...

We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both...

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Helen Rowland: Call the bald...

Helen Rowland: Call the bald...

Call the bald man, Boy; make the sage thy toy;
Greet the youth with solemn face; praise the fat man for his...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: A free-enterprise economy...

Barbara Ehrenreich: A free-enterprise economy...

A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: There is the...

Barbara Ehrenreich: There is the...

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of...

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Alice Embree: The message of...

Alice Embree: The message of...

The message of the media is the commercial.

Source: Media Images 1: Madison Avenue...

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Oriana Fallaci: I always introduce...

Oriana Fallaci: I always introduce...

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life...

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Helen Rowland: A bachelor never...

Helen Rowland: A bachelor never...

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

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Helen Rowland: Every once in...

Helen Rowland: Every once in...

Every once in a while nature stops experimenting and creates a man.

Source: In...

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Simone de Beauvoir: In order for...

Simone de Beauvoir: In order for...

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing,...

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Simone de Beauvoir: Change your life...

Simone de Beauvoir: Change your life...

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Source:...

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Ethel Percy Andrus: It is only...

Ethel Percy Andrus: It is only...

It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Source: In The...

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Jeannette Rankin: You can no...

Jeannette Rankin: You can no...

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Source: In Jeanette...

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Fanny Burney: Far from having...

Fanny Burney: Far from having...

Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.

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Delphine de Girardin: Instinct is the...

Delphine de Girardin: Instinct is the...

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Source: In Reader's Digest, 1 Oct 1972.
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Catherine Drinker Bowen: Writers seldom choose...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: Writers seldom choose...

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never...

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Gretel Ehrlich: Leaves are verbs...

Gretel Ehrlich: Leaves are verbs...

Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

Source: The Solace of Open Spaces,...

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Margaret Oliphant: As for pictures...

Margaret Oliphant: As for pictures...

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at...

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Anya Seton: As I grew...

Anya Seton: As I grew...

As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists...

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