Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.
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If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed a good idea at the time.'
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Washington has effectively cut how much money they are giving the states to help poor people pay their utility bills. States are scrambling to make up for the cuts in federal funds. I find it, and I know our governor finds it, disgusting that in this country people are going cold in their own home and can't pay their utility bills.
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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
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People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
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Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.
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She was like the embodiment of all women who have felt an astonished protest because their children have died before them.
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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.
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The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
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I...have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.
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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.
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Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which made it certain that what they dread shall happen.
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There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
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The consequence of ... centuries of warfare is that military men assume a position of too great importance in the country, which is always a m...
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It motivated the players to have women role models. They could go to the Target Center and watch the (WNBA's Minnesota) Lynx play, ... They could have heroes like Rebecca Lobo and those other great UConn players. They wanted to be like them. As a coach you just give them the skills needed for the opportunity to make it some day.
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People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
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The trouble about soldiers in Mr. Siegfried Sassoon's poetry ... is that they are the kind of people who in a railroad train have to travel wi...
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Nobody is one asking Western companies to go and lobby the Chinese government to change its behavior. That's not possible. But what we are asking companies to do is change the way in which they respond to Chinese government behavior and the way in which they interact with it, and that they can control.
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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
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It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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Why is it that the toast never pops up when you are standing beside the toaster?
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... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.
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Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.
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I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
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