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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

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When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

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What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

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Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

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Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

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Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.

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Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, Begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

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Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life

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Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay

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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one

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Personality is everything in art and poetry. Art

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Without haste, but without rest.

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