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“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”
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“...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included).”
― Selected Letters: The Personal Correspondence 1844-1877
― Selected Letters: The Personal Correspondence 1844-1877
“Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.”
― Everything, Everything
― Everything, Everything
“Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ”
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“In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.”
― The Communist Manifesto
― The Communist Manifesto
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