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"What is there about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?" Beatty blew out the flame and lit it again. "It's perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did. Or almost perpetual motion. If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It's a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it. Now, Montag, you're a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical."
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man
nature
fire
destruction
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Ray Bradbury |
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f988c29
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"The "mystique" that Friedan spoke of was the image of the woman as mother, wife, living through her husband, through her children, giving up her own dreams for that. She concluded: "The only way for a woman as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own."
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man
woman
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Howard Zinn |
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dc54eb0
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I danced alone for a couple of years, and came to believe that I might not ever have a passionate romantic relationship--might end up alone! I'd always been terrified of this. But I'd rather not ever be in a couple, or ever get laid again, than be in a toxic relationship. I spent a few years celibate. It was lovely, and it was sometimes lonely. I had surrendered; I'd run out of bullets. I learned to be the person I wished I'd meet, at which point I found a kind, artistic, handsome man. When we get out of bed, we hold our lower backs, like Walter Brennan, and we laugh, and bring each other the Advil.
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man
relationship
couple
person
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Anne Lamott |
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f70658c
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Yes, I'm a man and everyone knows men are great hairy beasts scarcely tamed by civilization -Jermyn, Duke of Northcliff to Amy, Princess Beaumontaigne
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man
rake
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Christina Dodd |
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47a2f20
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Life is short, nature is hostile, and man is ridiculous; but oddly enough most misfortunes have their compensations, and with a certain humour and a good deal of horse-sense one can make a fairly good job of what is after all a matter of very small consequence.
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man
life
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W. Somerset Maugham |
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adc8958
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Man is an animal, but even in his animal functions, he is not confined to the implicit, as the animal is; he becomes conscious of them, recognizes them, and lifts them, as, for instance, the process of digestion, into self-conscious science. In this way man breaks the barrier of his implicit and immediate character, so that precisely because he knows that he is an animal, he ceases to be an animal and attains knowledge of himself as spirit.
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man
consciousness
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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43a4eed
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"To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)"
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man
nature
pearl-s-buck
the-good-earth
land
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Pearl S. Buck |
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c1dbfda
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Skupljanje hrane nesumnjivo je bilo na prvom mjestu zenskih duznosti buduci da je taj zadatak odrzavao pleme na zivotu. Ni u jednom se trenutku pretpovijesne zene s djecom ili bez nje nisu oslanjale na svoje partnere, lovce, za nabavku hrane.
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man
women-s-rights
life
inspirational
women-s-strength
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Rosalind Miles |
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45b5ba7
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Evidentemente, muitos destes cegos estao a ser pisados, empurrados, esmurrados, e o efeito do panico, um efeito natural, pode-se dizer, a natureza animal e mesmo assim, tambem a vegetal se comportaria de igual maneira se nao tivesse todas aquelas raizes a prende-la no chao, e que bonito seria poder ver arvores do bosque a fugir ao incendio.
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man
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Saramago José |
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c249563
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I don't care if your the President of the United States, the Queen of England, the inventor of the microchip, a bankable movie star, or an ordinary Joe or Jill, you're no paragon in my book, but the same as a zebra or gazelle - a source of protein. In fact, I'd rather hunt you, because you're slow and feeble.
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man
nature
man-eater
to-the-point
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Philip Caputo |
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aedfa24
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Para um homem, a mulher e como uma pintura ou uma estatua classica. Ele escolhe uma e leva para casa, esperando que combine com a mobilia existente la.
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man
woman
mulher
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Mary Jo Putney |
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2371e29
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Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can be saying to ye while ye wake, but the same poor words, again and again. While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them. Go
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man
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Diana Gabaldon |
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1486ee4
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!Ay misero de mi, y ay infelice! Apurar, cielos, pretendo, ya que me tratais asi, que delito cometi contra vosotros naciendo. Aunque si naci, ya entiendo que delito he cometido; bastante causa ha tenido vuestra justicia y rigor, pues el delito mayor del hombre es haber nacido. Solo quisiera saber para apurar mis desvelos -dejando a una parte, cielos, el delito del nacer-, ?que mas os pude ofender, para castigarme mas? ?No nacieron los demas? Pues si los demas nacieron, ?que privilegios tuvieron que no yo goce jamas?
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man
privileges
misery
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca |
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ff6598d
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Niepowodzenia tworza ludzi albo ich lamia.
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man
human
niepowodzenie
polish
failure
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Margaret Mitchell |
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044e578
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The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field that prepares for battle, but none of us will turn and run or else we will be despised for ever. We pretend we want to be there, and when the wall at last advances, step by step, and the heart is thumping fast as a bird's wing beating, the world seems unreal.
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man
world
heart
despised
ever
prepares
reeks
shield
wing
turn
unreal
run
bird
field
pretend
shit
home
wall
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Bernard Cornwell |
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40c0464
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I felt that he was a captive of financial and sentimental commitments, like every other man I know, and that he was no more free to fall in love with a strange woman he saw on a street corner than he was to take a walking trip through French Guiana or to recommence his life in Chicago under an assumed name.
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man
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John Cheever |
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8cb19aa
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And she was angry because she knew she was capable of many things she couldn't even define to herself, so they seemed like bad dreams - that is what she told me. She told me she was eaten up with unused power and thought she might be a witch - except, she said, if she were a man, these things she thought about would be ordinarily acceptable.
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man
woman
suppressed
witch
power
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A.S. Byatt |