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Talent, like beauty,...

Talent, like beauty,...

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

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I must just...

I must just...

I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.

Source: Foreword,...

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One is not...

One is not...

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Source: The Second Sex, Knopf...

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Any critic is...

Any critic is...

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of...

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To place oneself...

To place oneself...

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means...

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Sacrifice is nothing...

Sacrifice is nothing...

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Source: The Notion...

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Today, you have...

Today, you have...

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Source: In Collection of 10,000...

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Roughly speaking, the...

Roughly speaking, the...

Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for...

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Every person is...

Every person is...

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell...

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The mass media...

The mass media...

The mass media molds everyone into more passive roles, into roles of more frantic consuming, into human beings with...

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Etiquette is behaving...

Etiquette is behaving...

Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

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PANTHEISM, n. The...

PANTHEISM, n. The...

PANTHEISM, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is...

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Jerry Rubin: The power to...

Jerry Rubin: The power to...

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

Source: In Webster's...

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Jerry Rubin: I'm famous. That's...

Jerry Rubin: I'm famous. That's...

I'm famous. That's my job.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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Martin Luther King, Jr: The question is...

Martin Luther King, Jr: The question is...

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be.

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Leon Trotsky: Learning carries within...

Leon Trotsky: Learning carries within...

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's...

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Leon Trotsky: If we had...

Leon Trotsky: If we had...

If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more...

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Gloria Steinem: Power can be...

Gloria Steinem: Power can be...

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

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Julia Ward Howe: The strokes of...

Julia Ward Howe: The strokes of...

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

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James Harrington: The Colonies ....

James Harrington: The Colonies ....

The Colonies . . . are yet babes that cannot live without sucking the breasts of their mother-Cities . ....

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