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The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.


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The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.



No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.



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

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



I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself



One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.



All oppression creates a state of war.

All oppression creates a state of war.



To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.



When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.



I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.



When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].





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It might even teach Murray that while finding true love was one of the most wonderful things that could happen to you in life, finding a friend was equally splendid.



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Everything’s an act. Everything’s strategy.



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A resource-poor country like Japan can only rely on people's endeavor and knowledge. I would like to continue my effort to provide help to younger people.



Everything about life makes me lonely.

Everything about life makes me lonely.



But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.



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Truth implies meaning.



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Find a way to express what moves you.



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If you drink O'Douls, you don't drink; but if you drink 20 O'Douls in a half hour, then you're a non-alcoholic.



And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time and space without you.

And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time and space without you.



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If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!




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