Margaret Fuller Quotes
What Woman needs is not as a woman to act or rule, but as a nature to grow, as an intellect to discern, as a soul to live freely and unimpeded.
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I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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When conflicted between two choices, take neither.
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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
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Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity and pain.
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Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes beyond the facts 'She said she'd call me and she didn't.'
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There is no effect without a cause. Chiropractors adjust causes. Others treat effects.
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What Woman needs is not as a woman to act or rule, but as a nature to grow, as an intellect to discern, as a soul to live freely and unimpeded.
