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No nation ever rises higher than its women.
Nellie L. McClung
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thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.
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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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Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.
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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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