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“For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.”
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“I am the world's worst good bridge player.”
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“The best way to become a mentally tough runner is to believe that you're a mentally tough runner”
Source : Twitter post from Jun 22, 2012 
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“Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.”
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“I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.”
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“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”
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“I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.”
Source : "The Division of Talent". Critical Inquiry, 11, No. 4, June 1985.
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“It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the separation creates a confusing ambiguity or patent artificiality, you are entitled to happily go ahead and split!”
Source : Richard Lederer (2012). “Lederer on Language: A Celebration of English, Good Grammar, and Wordplay”, p.58, Marion Street Press
