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Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#enough #evil #give #know #love

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#i #only #still #tyrant #voice

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#consider #deserving #families #female #first

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#all day #common #common sense #day #everybody

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#doing #everyone #generally #interesting #more

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#always #confidence #country #everybody #just

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#difficult #else #everything #extraordinarily #finding

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#always #detest #egotism #failure #feeling

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#below #clowns #little #seals #trained

It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#both sides #contract #determines #dollar #enjoyment