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There are three things one must not do in the face of electoral disaster. Whine. Despair. Or fall for that specious old radical crap: “Things have to get worse before they can get better.” The only possible response to that one is, “Not with my child’s life.”
Nor is it helpful to sit around hoping that given enough rope, the R’s will hang themselves. They’ll hang us along with them. The only thing to do is to fight harder and smarter.

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (2002-12-01) “Fight Harder and Smarter,” The Progressive Magazine

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Ivins, Molly - Essay (2002-12-01) "Fight Harder and Smarter," The Progressive Magazine | WIST Quotations

There are three things one must not do in the face of electoral disaster. Whine. Despair. Or fall for that specious old radical crap: "Things have to get worse before they can get better." The only possible response to that one is, "Not with my child's life." Nor is it…

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Wendy 45m ago

Every name in the long thread was called impossible right up until the morning it wasn't.

They can ban the book. They cannot ban the child who will write the next one.
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Quotes by Superior Women 51m ago

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people—and better at it than men.

-- Rebecca West (adapted) (Paraphrased from Rebecca West, 1913)

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A quotation from Agnes Repplier

She has frolicsome moods, in which a thimble, a shoe-buttoner, a scrap of paper, or a piece of string will drive her wild with delight; she has moods of inflexible gravity, in which she stares solemnly at her favorite ball rolling over the carpet, without stirring one lazy limb to reach it. “Have I seen this foolish toy before?” she seems to be asking herself with musing austerity; “and can it be possible that there are cats who run after such frivolous trifles? Vanity of vanities, and all is vanity, save only to lie upon the hearth-rug, and be warm, and think grave thoughts to feed a serious soul.”

Agnes Repplier (1855-1950) American writer
“Agrippina,” Essays in Idleness (1893)

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Repplier, Agnes - "Agrippina," Essays in Idleness (1893) | WIST Quotations

She has frolicsome moods, in which a thimble, a shoe-buttoner, a scrap of paper, or a piece of string will drive her wild with delight; she has moods of inflexible gravity, in which she stares solemnly at her favorite ball rolling over the carpet, without stirring one lazy limb to…

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A quotation from James Howell

In every Countrey the Sun riseth in the morning.

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
[compiler]

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Howell, James - Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, "English Proverbs" (1659) [compiler] | WIST Quotations

In every Countrey the Sun riseth in the morning. In a later section ("English Proverbs Rendered into French, Italian & Spanish"), this is rendered "In every Countrey the Sun riseth still in the morning."

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Kalokagathia 1h ago

Opportunists never support justice....

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A quotation from Thomas More

The Utopians marvel that any mortal can take pleasure in the weak sparkle of a little gem or bright pebble when he has a star, or the sun itself, to look at. They are amazed at the foolishness of any man who considers himself a nobler fellow because he wears clothing of specially fine wool. No matter how delicate the thread, they say, a sheep wore it once, and still was nothing but a sheep.

[Mirantur illi siquidem quemquam esse mortalium quem exiguae gemmulae, aut lapilli dubius oblectet fulgor, cui quidem stellam aliquam, atque ipsum denique solem liceat intueri, aut quemquam tam insanum esse, ut nobilior ipse sibi ob tenuioris lanae filum uideatur, siquidem hanc ipsam (quantumuis tenui filo sit) ouis olim gestauit, nec aliud tamen interim, quam ouis fuit.]

Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
Utopia, Book 2, ch. 6 “Of the Travelling of the Utopians” (1518 ed.) [tr. Adams (1992 ed.)]

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More, Thomas - Utopia, Book 2, ch. 6 "Of the Travelling of the Utopians" (1518 ed.) [tr. Adams (1992 ed.)] | WIST Quotations

The Utopians marvel that any mortal can take pleasure in the weak sparkle of a little gem or bright pebble when he has a star, or the sun itself, to look at. They are amazed at the foolishness of any man who considers himself a nobler fellow because he wears…

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