"On one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women."
-James Russell Lowell
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"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.“
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"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."
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"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
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"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend."
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"Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."
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"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship."
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-Albert Einstein
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"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
-Dr. Seuss
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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
-Jorge Luis Borges
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"A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
-Jane Austen
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
-Sylvia Plath
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