"I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege."
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"We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege"
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"Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit."
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"To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength."
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"Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege."
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"What a privilege it is to be an American!"
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"Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
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"If you say you’re going to trust your man, then trust your man. Don’t revoke that privilege when he needs it most."
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"It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts."
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"Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality."
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"Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine."
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"We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself."
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"I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always."
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"Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws."
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"To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse."
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"If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent."
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"Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege."
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"Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right."
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"Health care is a right, not a privilege."
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"Coding is a privilege, but that privilege is not available to most Americans."
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