Quotern

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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

-- Irvin D. Yalom

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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.

-- Evangelista Torricelli

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We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

-- Robert Mugabe

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To state a timetable now would simply paralyze the proper working of government, put at risk the changes we are making for Britain and damage the country.

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I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them - one or two of them particularly - almost as one of their own sex. I mean I have not felt about them as most women are taught to feel - to be on their guard against attacks on their virtue; for no average man - no man short of a sensual savage - will molest a woman by day or night, at home or abroad, unless she invites him. Until she says by a look 'Come on' he is always afraid to, and if you never say it, or look it, he never comes.

-- Thomas Hardy

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I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.

-- Danica McKellar

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I spit upon your God!

-- William Golding

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But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

-- Sylvia Plath

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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

-- Kahlil Gibran

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