I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
AGNES SMEDLEYI have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
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Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
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I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.
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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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The highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
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