“It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.”
— Arthur Henderson
Author: Arthur Henderson
Category: war
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“Music is love in search of a word.”
— Sidney Lanier
Author: Sidney Lanier
Category: music
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“North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.”
— Michael Kors
Author: Michael Kors
Category: relationship
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“The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.”
— Walter Scott
Author: Walter Scott
Category: power
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“In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.”
— Don DeLillo
Author: Don DeLillo
Category: technology
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“A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.”
— Kate Millett
Author: Kate Millett
Category: women
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“I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.”
— Elizabeth Blackwell
Author: Elizabeth Blackwell
Category: sad
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“My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.”
— Marco Rubio
Author: Marco Rubio
Category: mom
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“My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.”
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Category: travel
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“I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.”
— Guy Clark
Author: Guy Clark
Category: travel
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“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”
— Havelock Ellis
Author: Havelock Ellis
Category: jealousy
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