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If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

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The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

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The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#defeat #different #even #force #liberate

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#bear #discussion #explanation #man #parity

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#even #extends #fellow #his #homage

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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