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Quote by Virginia Woolf
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals wi

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. – Virginia Woolf

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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. – Virginia Woolf

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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. – Virginia Woolf

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From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that were engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there. – Dick Cheney

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The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people. – Gerome Gragni and James Rado, 1967

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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. – Samuel Butler

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There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war. – George McGovern

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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. – Thomas Carlyle

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Three passions, simple but overwhelming, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. – Bertrand Russell, Autobiography, 1967

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Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. – Malcolm X

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We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo… excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments. – Thomas J. Peters

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