“ Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis. ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
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“ He divides up this subject the way a Chinese cook divides up a duck. ”
- John McCarthy- Copy
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“ France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America.". ”
- Helen Rowland- Copy
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“ Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Friendship has splendor that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love. ”
- Mariama Ba- Copy
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“ There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. ”
- Frederika Bremer- Copy
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“ Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ I have 100 billion dollars… You realize I could spend 3 million dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime. Tell you what-I'll buy your right arm for a million dollars. I give you a million bucks, and I get to sever your arm right here. ”
- Bill Gates- Copy
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“ Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art. ”
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy- Copy
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“ He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand — like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery — in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism. ”
- Claude D. Pepper- Copy
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