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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. – Camille Paglia

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Because of my own familys service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars. – Camille Paglia

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Family
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Camille Paglia
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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. – Camille Paglia

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Beauty
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American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation. – Camille Paglia

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History
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My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income. – Dorothy Hamill

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mom

My mother said to me, If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope. Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. – Pablo Picasso

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mom

I have a very close relationship with my mom, and Im able to talk to her about anything. – Jessica Szohr

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mom

I think it would be a lot easier if I said, I feel like a dude, but I was raised by a southern mom, so I know how to put on lipstick and walk in heels and rock that look. Its exactly that juxtaposition that confuses people. – Saskia de Brauw

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mom

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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. – George Eliot

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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each others habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor. – Benjamin Disraeli

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I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m. – Jeannette Walls

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Morning

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence — those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. – Aldous Huxley, Island

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Society