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If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
Christina Stead
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Christina Stead
Age: 80 †
Born: 1902
Born: July 17
Died: 1983
Died: March 31
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The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.
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Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.
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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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I know your breed all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.
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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
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If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.
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Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.
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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is growing up, and I certainly licked the hide off her and she's seen marriage at its worst, and now she's dreaming about 'supermen' and 'great men'. What is the good of doing anything for them?
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I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
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money that is in billions and monopolies isn't money at all, because the people have none, and money is democratic, everyone has to have some or there's none at all.
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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
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