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Those who despair of life are not long for it.
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Reaction isn't action — that is, it isn't truly creative.
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We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.
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Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.
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Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.
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Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.
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The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
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For what society requires from art... is that it function as an early warning system.
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If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.
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Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.
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Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.
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I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.
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A problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.
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Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.
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As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.
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The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.
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Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.
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Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.
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We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us 'baby.'
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If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.
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The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.
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If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.
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We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.
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The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.
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Myth, legend, and ritual... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
Elizabeth Janeway
Born:
October 7, 1913
Died:
January 15, 2005
(aged 91)
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