Catharine MacKinnon (Catharine Alice MacKinnon) Quotes
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I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.
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I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.
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There comes the baffling call of God in our lives also. The call of God can never be stated explicitly; it is implicit. The call of God is like the call of the sea, no one hears it but the one who has the nature of the sea in him. It cannot be stated definitely what the call of God is to, because his call is to be in comradeship with himself, for his own purposes, and the test is to believe that God knows what he is after.
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Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive - but that was totally subconscious.
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When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.
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It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.
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Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.
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In dealing with Islamic countries, insist on reciprocation or no deal. If they want to build a mosque or Islamic school in our country, we should be able to build a church and a Christian school in theirs...
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Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.
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Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.
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The great lesson here for all imaginatively gridlocked systems is that the acceptance and even cherishing of uncertainty is critical to keeping the human mind from voyaging into the delusion of omniscience.
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You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life - suffering, horror, love, loss, hate - all of it.
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We fell in love with wrestling, and then we really wanted to break barriers, and we now get to do that because that's evolved beyond the ring.
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The day will put a particular emphasis on educating people of all ages about the lessons to be learnt from genocide.
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Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.
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Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
