“ Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so — that is to say, as free as man. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
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“ Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
- 67
“ Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ In America, I get a lot of younger kids, but there's teens and adults too,... In Europe, for some reason, I see a lot more males in the audience. In Japan, I don't even notice any kids, partially because they're a lot more strict about fan behavior over there. ”
- Avril Lavigne- Copy
- 314
“ It has been said that all the arts are constantly attempting, within their respective spheres, to attain to something of the quality of music, to assume, whether in pigment, or pencil, or marble, or prose, something of its speed and flash, emotional completeness, and well-harmonied resonance; but of no other single art is that so characteristically or persistently true as it is of poetry… ”
- Conrad Aiken- Copy
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“ Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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“ Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right. ”
- Bill Maher- Copy
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“ Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word "modernity" if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China. ”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn- Copy
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“ I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well. ”
- John Keegan- Copy
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“ These are projects that preceded this administration,... Many were partially paid. And we're (now) in a position to meet those commitments. ”
- Andrew Ross- Copy
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“ I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics. ”
- James Hillman- Copy
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“ Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage. ”
- Frances Perkins- Copy
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“ I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. ”
- Edward Hoagland- Copy
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“ The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held. ”
- Milton Hall- Copy
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“ It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
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“ Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. ”
- Tennessee Williams- Copy
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