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Han Suyin: Exploitation and oppression...

Han Suyin: Exploitation and oppression...

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called...

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Stanislaw Lem: Where do consequences...

Stanislaw Lem: Where do consequences...

Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.

Source: Holiday, Sep 1963.
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Stanislaw Lem: Cancel me not...

Stanislaw Lem: Cancel me not...

Cancel me not -- for what shall then remain?
Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes,
A root or two, a torus...

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Maria Montessori: If an educational...

Maria Montessori: If an educational...

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of...

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Booker T Washington: No man, who...

Booker T Washington: No man, who...

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he...

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Booker T Washington: I shall never...

Booker T Washington: I shall never...

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

Source: In Correct...

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Pierre de Coubertin: The Olympic Games...

Pierre de Coubertin: The Olympic Games...

The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . ....

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: I am my...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: I am my...

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

Source: Aug 1941, Myself, 1967.
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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: I've got to...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: I've got to...

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.

Source: Feb 1941, Myself,...

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Thomas Carlyle: Every noble work...

Thomas Carlyle: Every noble work...

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Thomas Carlyle: A good book...

Thomas Carlyle: A good book...

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

Source: Speech made in support...

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Edna O'Brien: In a way...

Edna O'Brien: In a way...

In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of...

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Marguerite Duras: The woman is...

Marguerite Duras: The woman is...

The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man...

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Anne Bronte: But he that...

Anne Bronte: But he that...

But he that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.


Source: The...

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George Meredith: Ah, what a...

George Meredith: Ah, what a...

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hot for certainties in this our life!


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Mark Twain: In Paris they...

Mark Twain: In Paris they...

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand...

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Mark Twain: Lump the whole...

Mark Twain: Lump the whole...

Lump the whole thing! Say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!

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Katherine Mansfield: Tidied all my...

Katherine Mansfield: Tidied all my...

Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great...

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Flannery O'Connor: Everywhere I go...

Flannery O'Connor: Everywhere I go...

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of...

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Jessamyn West: Memory is a...

Jessamyn West: Memory is a...

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to...

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