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“Life could not defeat her if she were working for something bigger than herself and her personal sorrows.”
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“The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.”
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“... time spent in being interrupted is not time lost. ... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most blessed thing that has come to us in long days?”
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“We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.”
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“He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. The fear of microbes played a very important part in his life. ... For him the only danger came from the microbes which attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.”
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“When I had a few francs, I spent them at a café on the Place de Longchamps, a block or so from my pension, where I could order a glass of Beaujolais and a plate of string beans in vinaigrette for the equivalent of fifteen cents.”
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“... its lamplit walls were dear to her, with the extraordinary same dearness of all walls seen in tranquillity.”
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“While some women argue that the corporate world is not yet ready for feminine leadership, I would argue that American industry is more ready today than it has ever been for this approach. The problem is one of recognition. Businesses simply have not yet recognized the contribution that women managers can make. They will become more receptive to this nontraditional style only when more women demonstrate a willingness to use it.”
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