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If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
Quotes By Joseph Conrad
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As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women...
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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you and also sincerity. That complete...
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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of...
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Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in...
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It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of...
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A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by...
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only...
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in...
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or...
Quotes About Power
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One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the...
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then...
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Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power...
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A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the...
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The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is...
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We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch...
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of...
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In reality Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have...
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This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that...
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When it comes to energy cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody...