Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.
Quotes to Explore
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The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
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I don't sign contracts for my books.
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Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.
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I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.
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You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.
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My mother, she smiles when I come around now. My daughter's eatin' decent meals and she's in private school. She's 4 years old. She started school. It's a beautiful thing.
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Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.
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The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.
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If at this moment you simply made up your minds that you were handsome, beautiful, strong, dangerous, powerful, that you knew everything there was to know, you were totally capable in any job that you undertook or any sport you undertook-if you really believed that, and you can believe it, some of your faces would change physically before my eyes.
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God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.
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If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.
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Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.
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You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.
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We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town.
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Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives.
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Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.
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I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.
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I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.
