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I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.
Nellie L. McClung
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Women who set a low value of themselves make life hard for all women.
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Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.
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It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.
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Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.
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Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.
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Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?
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War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.
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the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.
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War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.
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it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.
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I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said.
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