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There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed.

Rose Kennedy

There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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Argument Myself View
There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed.
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Deep Oppression
Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.
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Argument Morning Night Yourself
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.
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Beauty Children Friendship Gift God Inspirational Intelligence Life Myself Philosophy Respect Spirit
I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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Believe Carry God Himself Myself Sadness Storm
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
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Best Challenge Children Love Myself World
I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
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Excitement Love Marriage Money Myself Time
My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.
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Greatness Life Myself Regret Sadness
My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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Business Himself Job Myself Simplicity
It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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Children Parents Wrong
I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.
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Carry Challenge Death Life Live Myself Tragedy
Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father’s time, a politician’s home was still his castle.
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Father Home Live Politics Time
I have had quite an interesting life. My husband was quite successful in the movies, and we went out frequently with Gloria Swanson and other stars.
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Husband Life Myself Quite Success Travel
Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.
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Expression Mindset People Reflection
I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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Goodness Myself Thinking Yourself
Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.
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Argument Lose Morning Night Yourself
To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.
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Magic Mindset Myself Oneself World
In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.
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Destiny Happiness Life Myself Reading Rule
If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
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Lose Possible Yourself
I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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Break Children Myself Risk Spirit
I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
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Defeat Myself
I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
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Myself Old Wine Worth
It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
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Determination Pain Tears
I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.
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Carry Challenge Death Life Live Myself Tragedy
In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
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Confidence Mad Walk World
It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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Children Parents Wrong
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
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Feeling Freedom People Sing Storm Sun

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