Virginia Woolf Quotes
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would not believe that the world was round.
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The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.
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I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.
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My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med student regularly on the show. And at one point or another, I've had all four of his kids on the show.
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We're on a mission to win back both readers and advertisers. We're going to cover the hip-hop scene from a neutral but still hard-hitting point of view.
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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.