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Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in so

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Women
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Knowledge
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. – Isaac Asimov

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Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. Its us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians. – Sarah Zettel

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We live in a disposable society. Its easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name – we call it recycling. – Neil LaBute

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Society

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition… always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. – Roland Barthes

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Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start. – Edward W. Howe

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I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected. – Louise Brown

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In meditation we witness our thoughts without any judgment. – Author Unknown

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