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Maya Angelou quote: "Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it..."

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

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We need the books that affect us like disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. Franz Kafka
It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun. C. S. Lewis
I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los Angeles, as well. That was again something that also came in very handy for Basic, because I'd learned already how to handle a gun and how to behave just physically when you're in a situation, a threat. That was very good to know. Connie Nielsen
Thomas Hardy quote: "Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we..."
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. Thomas Hardy
Khalil Gibran quote: "Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the..."
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. Khalil Gibran
Wouldn't it be great, as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like. William S. Burroughs
Mahatma Gandhi quote: "Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth..."
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. Mahatma Gandhi
True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want. Larry Wall
I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings. F. Scott Fitzgerald
To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope. On both perhaps. Albert Camus
I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use a bit of the tone of 'Bild.' This is terrible. Gunter Grass
George R. R. Martin quote: "Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair..."
Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears. George R. R. Martin
In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. (pg. 181, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community) Wendell Berry
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I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled. Ron Chernow
There he is, in the fading light, certain of what he wants, certain of her. If Gillian were speaking to her sister, or more correctly, if Sally were speaking to her, Gillian would draw her over to the window to get a look. Isn't he beautiful? That's what she would have said if she and Sally had been talking. I wish I deserved him, she would have whispered into her sister's ear. Alice Hoffman