"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Churchill, Winston on success
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"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Churchill, Winston on opportunity
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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"Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

Vidal, Gore on voting
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"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."

Wilde, Oscar on friends and friendship
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"Once upon a time all the animals in the zoo decided that they would disarm, and they arranged to have a conference to arrange the matter. So the Rhinoceros said when he opened the proceedings that the use of teeth was barbarous and horrible and ought to be strictly prohibited by general consent. Horns, which were mainly defensive weapons, would, of course, have to be allowed. The Buffalo, the Stag, the Porcupine, and even the little Hedgehog all said they would vote with the Rhino, but the Lion and the Tiger took a different view. They defended teeth and even claws, which they described as honourable weapons of immemorial antiquity. The Panther, the Leopard, the Puma, and the whole tribe of small cats all supported the Lion and the Tiger. Then the Bear spoke. He proposed that both teeth and horns should be banned and never used again for fighting by any animal. It would be quite enough if animals were allowed to give each other a good hug when they quarreled. No one could object to that. It was so fraternal, and that would be a great step towards peace. However, all the other animals were very offended with the Bear, and the Turkey fell into a perfect panic. The discussion got so hot and angry, and all those animals began thinking so much about horns and teeth and hugging when they argued about the peaceful intentions that had brought them together that they began to look at one another in a very nasty way. Luckily the keepers were able to calm them down and persuade them to go back quietly to their cages, and they began to feel quite friendly with one another again. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised
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"If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country."

Malcolm X on violence
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"Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it."

Bron, Eleanor on fallibility
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"Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us."

Dworkin, Andrea on feminism   

"Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights."

Grimke, Angelina on feminism   

"I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist."

Kempton, Sally on feminism   

"There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic."

Greer, Germaine on feminism   

"Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common."

Carter, Angela on feminism   

"The fundamental impulse of the movement is neither masturbatory nor concretely lesbian -- although it of course offers warm house to both these possibilities; it is an impulse to maidenhood -- to that condition in which a woman might pretend to a false fear or loathing of the penis in order to escape from any responsibility for the pleasure and well-being of the man who possesses it."

Decter, Midge on feminism
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"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."

Woolf, Virginia on feminism
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"I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes, she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes."

French, Marilyn on feminism   

"In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected."

Luce, Clare Boothe on elections   

"A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes."

Luce, Clare Boothe on love
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"I am a staunch feminist, in spite of all women's magazines. "

Kocher, Gerhard on feminism   

"Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not."

Dworkin, Andrea on feminism
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"Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out."

Luce, Clare Boothe on feminism   

"If I were a woman, I would never trust men who say they are feminists. Either they are acting out of guilt, trying to establish credentials, or they think they might be able to pick up more girls. If I were a woman, I would say, go away and have your first period. Then come back and tell me you are a feminist."

Thomas, David on feminism   

"Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild -- and what happened? The men wilted."

Jong, Erica on sex
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"Women are an enslaved population -- the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion -- contempt for women -- has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men."

Dworkin, Andrea on women
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"On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women."

Mencken, H. L. on agreement
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"Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on women
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"Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women."

Astor, Lady Nancy on women
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"Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men."

Reik, Theodor on women
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"Suffrage is the pivotal right."

Anthony, Susan B. on voting   

"Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences."

Anthony, Susan B. on reform   

"People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."

West, Rebecca on feminism
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"I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out."

Parton, Dolly on feminism   

"I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."

Jordan, June on feminism
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"The world remains ever the same."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on world   

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"The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it."

Hemingway, Ernest on world   

"The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion."

Kennedy, John F. on freedom
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