Quote by Martha Gellhorn
I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have neve

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person. – Martha Gellhorn

Other quotes by Martha Gellhorn

And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish. – Martha Gellhorn

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Food
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Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? Its great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but Im not complaining,… Those who find growing old terrible are people who havent done what they wanted with their lives. – Martha Gellhorn

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Age
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Perception
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swans egg. – Hans Christian Andersen

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Perception

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro narrow chinks of his cavern. – William Blake

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Perception

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. – Walter Benjamin

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Perception

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. – Ruth Benedict

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Perception

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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. – Daniel Defoe

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It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact – hence changing general statements about it – and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system. – Talcott Parsons

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Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I dont make eye contact, the guys wont come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled. – Silvia Colloca

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My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a masters degree while raising them as a single parent. Now shes a brilliant second-grade teacher. Im in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother. – Idina Menzel

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teacher