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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

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But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.

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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

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During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.

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There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.

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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

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We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

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Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

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We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

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We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

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The stock actor is a stage calamity

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How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

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No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

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A great social reformer.

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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

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