"If you're sure of who you are it doesn't really matter what people call you, does it?"
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"I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society."
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"Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied."
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"An ad hominem attack against an individual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message."
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"There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not."
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"When does a building actually become a built?"
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"I do Pilates and yoga to stay in front of the curve. I feel like it's helping me. Does it work for everybody? I don't know. I'm not a guru on how to be in the best condition. Let me sit here and tell you that. But it works for me."
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"I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat"
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"Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is."
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"Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same way as I exist?" "You do not exist."
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"A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders."
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"Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?"
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"Language does our thinking for us."
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"When it comes to success, it will come when it comes. A delay does not mean a denial."
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"Nobody actually ever does this—escaping through a window."
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"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."
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"In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me."
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"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed."
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"The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it."
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"He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool."
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