Mona Eltahawy Quotes
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Don't throw out buzz words without really knowing what is going on behind it.
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It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.
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Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.
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I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."
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In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.
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The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.
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The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to how it did this are another matter. A good many different theories have been held as to how it works; what all Christians are agreed on is that it does work.
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One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.
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Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
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[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.
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I think that I have been clear that demonizing and demagoguing about Muslims is not only offensive it is dangerous and it plays into ISIS's hands.
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It's very rewarding if I make a difference to a kid.
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No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.
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I'm very attached to my roots, but I feel Italian more than anything else.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they misbehave. It is unseemly and betrays a sad lack of creativity.
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I'm here to confuse you. Confusion is my right and left hook.
