. . . people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do … - Janet Flanner

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Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.

Janet Flanner

. . . people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.

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I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

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In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

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Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.

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I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad qualities of the bourgeoisie rather than the good qualities of the middle class which the Democrats call forth.

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Tim Ferriss

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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

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