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I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle. – Maria Mitchell

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We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing. – Maria Mitchell

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Knowledge
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Maria Mitchell
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We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own. – Maria Mitchell

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Travel
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Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone. – Grover Norquist

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alone

Im not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, Im not a rock star. Im not in it for the fame, Im in it because I like to play. – Eddie Van Halen

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alone

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People dont realize what its really like. – Lenny Kravitz

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alone

The best part about being with a group is that you dont have to do everything alone. Youre with your friends. – Justin Timberlake

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His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly. – George Eliot

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Ive always believed that if you dont stay moving, they will throw dirt on you. – Paul Anka

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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isnt in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging. – J. G. Ballard

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It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. – Blaise Pascal

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