Elizabeth Oakes Smith Quotes
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To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.
Adam Grant
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I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, resilient and glamorous.
Laura Carmichael
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It ain't necessarily so,It ain't necessarily so.De t'ings dat yo' li'bleTo read in de Bible,It ain't necessarily so.
Ira Gershwin
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Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'
H. P. Lovecraft
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If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.
Matthew Desmond
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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
Francis Bacon
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I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.
J. B. Priestley
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There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.
Cynthia Weil
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Which is why I am still out here representing for the betterment of the people. There’s too much badness in the music.My little contribution is to bring a little love to the people; love save the people.
Junior Reid
Black Uhuru
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Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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O, how wretchedIs that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,More pangs and fears than wars and women have;And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,Never to hope again.
Prince
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How few women have any history after the age of thirty!
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
