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As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.

Almost Always Barbarian Condemnation
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The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

The Will Is Beast
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An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

Cannot Her Include Leads
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It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

Giving Connect World Divine
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

Ancient times World Patriarchal Catholic
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

Women Education Work Income
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In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.

Conflict War Poverty Women
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I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

Destroy Nuclear Cataclysm Capacity
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I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.

Convey Story Particular Idea
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Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

Give Experience Knowledge Talent
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I feel as though, if you're able to control your dreams, you have more power and control over your mind, like you could reach more areas of your mind. Therefore, I feel like it creates the ability for you to achieve more things in reality.

Ability Able Achieve Area
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Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Average Average People Consists Good
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When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
Audience Connection Music Regain
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
Continue Discuss Entire Entire Life
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Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.

About Always Birthday Come
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Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Change Circumstances Control You
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I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-free life, you know?

Always Basically Been Good
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First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

Actress Convince First Maybe
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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
Changes Constant Nature Scene
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

Contempt Envy Grant High
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I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

Cannot Will Recant Anything
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism. It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Good Write Kind Book
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Over Death Poets Triumphs
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

Consists Made Many Reality
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A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
Man Moral Conscience Curse
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Dream Higher Bother Contemporary
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

Control Direct Emotions Properly
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

Mind Verbal Affect Repetition
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Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

Attitude Contingent Prospect Sales
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Bother Contemporary Better
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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Also Art Before Consist
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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

Alchemy Although Considered Contempt
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We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'

Double Problem Then Tough
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Aim Alchemy Consider Gold
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Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

Worse Gratitude Accept
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The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.

Young man Forgotten Problems Heart
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I'm glad I haven't got the sort of conscience I've got to nurse like a sick puppy all the time.

Glad Conscience Nurse Sick
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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Added Clear ClearConscience Conscience
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Chief Consists Enjoyment Greater
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Affections Benevolent Constitute Exercise
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I confess, I do not believe in time.
Believe Confess Time
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Because Conscience Excess Feared
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

Attended Consumer Consumption End
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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Faith Is Living Daring
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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

You Should Not Believe
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Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Justice Temporary Thing That
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There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

Afterlife Am Convinced I Am
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I don't try to control my days.

Control Days Try
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I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

Conversation Cry Easily Movie
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For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

For The Nature Things
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