I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
AGNES SMEDLEYGambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
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I forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant–one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.
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I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions.
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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
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Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
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