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"One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort."
"For better or worse, there is not a situation in one's daily life that does not have feminist subtext, superstructure, implications and one is constantly aware of it, even when you want to rest it stands up and hits you in the face."
"You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character."
"The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst."
"Doe what thou oughtest, and come what come can."
"Death does not wait for you to be ready! Death is not considerate or fair. And make no mistake: here, you face death."
"To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease."
"Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do."
"A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve."
"It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't."
"How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister."
"Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror."
"Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time."
"Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature."
"Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres."
"Does nobody understand?"
"We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea."
"The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor."
"What shall he fear that does not fear death."
"Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths."
