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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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Solomon Bellows
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The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.
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If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.
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In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main ones, the real soul and a pretender soul. Now! Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?' Are you with me?
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Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.
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I must play the instrument I've got.
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Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
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