#ender

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#categorize #class #dismiss #each #gender

The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#bookshelf #feeling #gone #i #i think

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#god #grant #off #strength #surrender

No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle. ↗

— Henry F. Ashurst

#great #great principle #his #life #man

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#deeper #effect #fix #had #important

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State. ↗

— Gary Becker

#because #efficient #fine #fines #imprisonment

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege. ↗

— William Beveridge

#find #often #pessimist #privilege #scratch

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender. ↗

— William Booth

#his #man #measure #power #surrender

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account. ↗

— Preston Brooks

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