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Quote by Emily Dickinson
Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- youre straightway dangero

Assent — and you are sane — , demur — youre straightway dangerous — , and handled with a Chain — . – Emily Dickinson

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I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you dont know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch. – Emily Dickinson

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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. – Edmund Burke

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I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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If we confuse dissent with disloyalty – Edward R. Murrow

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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. – Sigmund Freud

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