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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
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I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
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I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
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whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.
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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.
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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.
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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
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People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.
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Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
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A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.
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[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
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