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... a tin-horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor. More
... democracy is not only service, action, brotherhood—it is spirit—spirit free, indefinable,... More
... dependence upon material possessions inevitably results in the destruction of human character. More
... gratitude is not a healthy emotion in the long run ... More
... in all cases of monstrosity at birth anaesthetics should be applied by doctors publicly... More
... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the... More
... many American Jews have a morbid tendency to exaggerate their handicaps and difficulties. ...... More
... married women work and neglect their children because the duties of the homemaker become so... More
... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals. More
... most reform movements in our country have been cursed by a lunatic fringe and have mingled... More
... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise... More
... no human being is master of his fate, and ... we are all motivated far more than we care to... More
... So damn your food and damn your wines,
Your twisted loaves and twisting vines,
Your... More
... teaching to me was anathema, chiefly because it would condemn me to a world of petticoats. More
... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man’s regeneration. In raising... More
... the idea of a classless society is ... a disastrous mirage which cannot be maintained without... More
... the lesson to be learned from China’s Confucianism could never be more significant for us... More
... the mass migrations now habitual in our nation are disastrous to the family and to the... More
... the planters began by stealing the liberty of their slaves, by stealing their labour, by... More
... the separation of church and state means separation—absolute and eternal—or it means... More
... the whole Wilsonian buncombe ... its ideational hollowness, its ludicrous strutting and... More
... women become far more cruel than men when they hurl themselves into ruthless competition with... More
...a mind, if given only the best food never craves any other. More
...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are... More
...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and... More
...I knew I wanted to be permanently self-supporting and I vaguely thought I might work somewhere... More
...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything... More
...the worst horror of the Russian Revolution was the letting loose of one hundred million... More
...women were fighting for limited freedom, the vote and more education. I wanted all the... More
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a... More
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman. More
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. More
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. More
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know. More
A child who thinks he is good at something even if he is not—soccer, math, violin—is likely... More
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection. More
A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress... More
A cult is a religion with no political power. More
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely... More
A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country. More
A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case. More
A fierce unrest seethes at the core,
Of all existing things:,
It was the eager wish to... More
A fool and her money are soon courted. More
A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my... More
A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth. More
A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not... More
A good part—and definitely the most fun part—of being a feminist is about frightening men. More
A horse, a buggy and several sets of harness, valued in all at about $250, were stolen last night... More
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. More
A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. More
A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera. More
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses... More
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness. But after that he begins to bunch... More
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish... More
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. More
A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of... More
A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with... More
a man
thinks he amounts
to a great deal
but to a
flea or a
mosquito... More
A man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that... More
A man’s idea in a card game is war—cruel, devastating and pitiless. A lady’s idea of it is... More
A man’s women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always... More
A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you... More
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. More
A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man. More
A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles—whose needs are never... More
A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the... More
A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own... More
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be... More
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. More
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine... More
A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically... More
A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy... More
A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be... More
A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had... More
A “just war” is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more... More
A “snapshot” feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had... More
Actually being married seemed so crowded with unspoken rules and odd secrets and unfathomable... More
Adultery is the application of democracy to love. More
After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most... More
After marriage, a woman’s sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband... More
After World War I, the objective factors for socialist revolution were less favorable than they... More
Afterwards, when the bombshell of early motherhood first hit, I remember wondering how any woman... More
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is... More
Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and... More
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. More
Alcohol is nicissary f’r a man so that now an’ thin he can have a good opinion iv himsilf,... More
Alimony—The ransom that the happy pay to the devil. More
All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is... More
All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand. More
All of women’s aspirations—whether for education, work, or any form of... More
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or... More
All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running... More
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why... More
All that the Y.M.C.A.’s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable... More
All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it,... More
All things being equal, I would choose a woman over a man in order to even the balance of power,... More
All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich... More
All th’ world loves a good loser. More
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that... More
Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually... More

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