#den

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life. ↗

— Betty Buckley

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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

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For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.' ↗

— Betty Buckley

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For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

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It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. ↗

— John Bunyan

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Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

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The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

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As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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