Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has c

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. – Knut Hamsun

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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements… the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. – Jackson Pollock

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Where children are, there is the golden age. – Novalis

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. – Maurice Chevalier

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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. – W.H. Auden

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Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art. – Jerry Saltz

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The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that were open for university students coming into the U.K. Theres a job here not just for the government, I think theres a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open. – Theresa May

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Women are beautiful, and yummy. – A.C. Van Cherub, c.1987

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