Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
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When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.
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Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
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I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.
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Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.
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Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else. #LoveWins.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.
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'I want to know how many years I got.''Many,' said Ta-Kumsaw. 'Or few. All that matters is what you do with however many years you have.'
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The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.
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But now I see I was not plucked for naught,And after in life's vaseOf glass set while I might survive,But by a kind hand broughtAliveTo a strange place.
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And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and maternity care, but would still charge us up to 50 percent more than men - for a worse plan.
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Sorry dude, but we're in a boxing match and you went against your word and tried to make me look weak and stupid in front of 17 million people. That's just not gonna happen.
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The knowledge we have of communication among cells does not permit my giving you a sophisticated understanding.
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My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
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If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.
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I feel like my best music is still ahead of me, and I can't wait for everyone to hear it.
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Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
