How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?
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Maaza Mengiste
To be “out of touch” with a society in which women have internalized their subjugation is an admirable thing.
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Mona Eltahawy
We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing....
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Anonymous
Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
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Victor Hugo
For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.
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Jennifer Donnelly
More Quotes By Yevgeny Zamyatin
You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you you hate it because you are afraid of it you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.
Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth...
Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.
Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
