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The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.

Think Present condition Woman Oppressed
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The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.

Strongest reason Woman Higher education
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Strengthens Judgement Conscience Individual responsibility
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Come! Poor little heart! Be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate.

Come Poor Little heart Brave
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A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly — better than always doubting and doubting and seeing difficulties and disagreeables in everything.

Little credulity Life Smoothly
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But her little white thin hand lay in mine; and we understood each other without words.

White Hand Mine Understood
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There are no draws with God, no split decisions. When we wrestle with the Almighty, we lose. He is the undefeated champion of the universe

God Draws Decisions Wrestle
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.

Act Ahead Believe Done
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Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.

Against Aggression Arab ArabCountries
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Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.

Although Armed Bases Control
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If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.
About Cry Friend Like
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I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.

Always Expansion Mom Politics
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I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.

Been Experience Has-Been Increased
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Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
Attract Issues People Politicians
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
Few Geniuses Humility Left
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One of the most important attribute in achieving success is "Persistent" , The unwillingness to give up in spite of difficulty and the ability to continue against the odds that distinguishes the winners from the others.

Persistent Success Odds Winners
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If we prioritize the education of the girl child, we are bringing down poverty, income inequalities, underdevelopment, discrimination, gender biased violence etc. No girl should be left behind.

Prioritize Education Get child Poverty
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So little time and so little to do.

Little Little Time Time
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A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

Bridge Cross Double He
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Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Admit ICan Mistake Politicians
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As women and citizens, we must be involved in politics. We are an integral part of nation building.

Women Citizen Politics Integral part
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I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

Giving I Love Idea Love
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I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
Any Literally Me Medium
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Continue Elaborate Elite Fall
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When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

Another Could Even Feeling
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.

Affect Began Community Could
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Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

Bite Bitten Dogs Get
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Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

Believe Born Confession Form
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Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Emotional Promiscuity Sentiment Sentimentality
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Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

Beasts Culture Huge Risks
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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Always Bit Dying Every
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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Born Cheats Day Each
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

Accepting Death Include Knock
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Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

Always Another Being Bit
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Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

American AmericanLife AmericanMen Because
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I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

Ability Become Combinations Grasp
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If you just stay positive and have a little faith, your story too will change for the better.

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Your reality is a shadow of your perception.

Reality Shadow Perception
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I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right.
Age Always Am Being
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Politicians really worry about being politically correct.

About Being Correct Politically
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I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

Literature Life Reading script Prepared
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It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

Drag Everyone Go Kinds
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An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Ability Action Advantage Competitive
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
Face Face Reality Reality Wish
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Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Journalism Politics Collusion Oversimplify
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True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.

Bridges Collapse Create Cross
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Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
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A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
Cut Dare Else Free
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In order to mount to the Cross, the summit of sacrifice, and to God, the summit of immateriality, Christ passed through all the stages which the man who struggles passes through.

Christ Cross God Man
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There's a mentality that opens you up to a world of ideas and opportunities that gives you a seat on the table of Financial giants.

Mentality Opens you World Ideas
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