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“The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.”
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“Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.”
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“Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.”
Source : Matilda Joslyn Gage (1893). “Woman, Church and State: A Historical Account of the Status of Woman Through the Christian Ages: with Reminiscences of Matriarchate”
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“No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.”
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“Silence is like a flame, you see?”
Source : Interview with Charlie Rose, September 27, 2000.
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“Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.”
Source : Gilbert Ryle (2015). “The Concept of Mind”, p.169, Lulu Press, Inc
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“Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.”
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“For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.”
