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Nellie L. McClung Quotes: Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.
         

Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.


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Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.



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I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.



That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.



I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.

I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.



Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.

Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.




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Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.



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Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?



No nation ever rises higher than its women.

No nation ever rises higher than its women.



Disturbers are never popular - nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action, no matter how grateful he may have been afterwards for its kind services!

Disturbers are never popular - nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action, no matter how grateful he may have been afterwards for its kind services!





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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.



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Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don’t find her joke all that funny.



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Nobody makes anybody enlightened.Just tell them what you want to say, then let them decide for themselves.



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If I'm collaborating with an artist I like to give them my point of view and if they don't want to take any of my recommendations it's fine, but it's hard otherwise.



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Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea.



But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?



Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money.

Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money.




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