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English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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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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I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
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About all you can do in life is be who you are.
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Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
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We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, Man, And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
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