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Lecturer Inspirational Quotes (1887)

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Women must commit to use our power-to on our own behalf so we can translate it into the power to help others and ourselves.
Gloria Feldt
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Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, Halt! A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
Herman Melville
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The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings
Joseph Campbell
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When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.
J. William Fulbright
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Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.
Herman Melville
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In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found no evidence to support rumors of FBI involvement in the assassination.
Louis Stokes
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the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.
Gloria Steinem
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The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.
Emma Goldman
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He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
Herman Melville
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We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood that there is nothing mysterious about them that they are simply transparent falsehoods.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one we have but one. Each one is equal to himself and the other two.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Thank you for all your good and beautiful work.
Gloria Steinem
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
Joseph Campbell
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Education must start from birth.
Maria Montessori
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Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.
Gloria Steinem
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The function of artists is the mythologization of the world.
Joseph Campbell
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I do not think it is selling America short when we ask a great deal of her on the contrary, it is those who ask nothing, those who see no fault, who are really selling America short!
J. William Fulbright
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We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.
Joseph Campbell
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
Herman Melville
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There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call atheists, and those who think they are facts are religious. Which group really gets the message?
Joseph Campbell
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Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.
Herman Melville
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