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“Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.”

“It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan't make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this — But oh my dear, I can't be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don't love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don't really resent it.”

“A man and his loves make a man and his life.”

“It is quite true that you have had infinitely more influence on me intellectually than anyone, and for this alone I love you.”

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"Under the dictatorship of the proletariat, revisionists and opportunists reflect the pressure of nonproletarian, bourgeois and petty-bourgeois strata, the pressure that results from the force of habit…"

— Leonid Brezhnev

Politics1906–1982

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"Oakland is the birthplace of this party. Oakland will be the birthplace of revolution in the United States. And that will be so despite the pigs. It will be so despite any petty despots who claim to b…"

— Elaine Brown

Literature1943

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"As superstition is the weed of the brain, it grows perfusely, once started."

— Joseph Lewis

Entertainment1907–2000

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"Whoever wishes to define the conceptual invariants of natural beauty would make himself as ridiculous as Husserl did when he reports that while ambulating he perceived the green freshness of the lawn.…"

— Edmund Husserl

Mathematics1859–1938

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