"Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed."
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"It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear."
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"It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . ."
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"If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires."
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"The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became. I realized that here was the material for a book. What I discovered was that everything which meant most to me as a naturalist was being threatened, and that nothing I could do would be more important."
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"Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would be more like Ezra Pound. There is a lot of information in most of my pictures, but not the kind of information you see in documentary photography. There is emotional information in my photographs."
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"Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits. Without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them."
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"Socialization would be the most successful thing to bring mainstream audiences to online computers."
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"No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere."
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"A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms."
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"It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual."
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"If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all."
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"In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do."
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"The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty."
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"If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride."
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"So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies."
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"I always thought, if I can affect one kid and help him or her fulfil their dreams, that would be kinda neat, so I want to ensure that I'm remembered in a good way."
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"Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best we have for explaining what we are like to others in space, with least ambiguity. I would vote for Bach, all of Bach, streamed out into space, over and over again. We would be bragging of course, but it is surely excusable to put the best possible face on at the beginning of such an acquaintance. We can tell the harder truths later."
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"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation."
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"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."
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