Virginia Woolf
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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There's the best of politics in your home; room and on your bed.
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer's market and whip up an easy but healthier option.
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
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