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“To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!”
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“Sculling is the closest I'll ever come to being a ballerina, to creating visual music. A good rowing stroke is fluid, circular, continuous. It is unmarred by pauses, hitches, arm yanks, or back heaves.”
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“... the sexes in each species of beings ... are always true equivalents — equals but not identicals ...”
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“... she'd been so programmed by Julian to think of herself as inferior material that if a man threw himself at her feet, her immediate reaction would be to call an ambulance.”
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“You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.”
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“... most of our social and educational institutions are designed to weed out or make over people ... until we produce a world where everyone is a smart, quick-witted, aggressive person living on the surface of the mind without ever looking into the depths.”
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“... what was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself, — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose?”
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“Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.”