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When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.


Frederick Sanger


#beauty #believe #father #felt #gave

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.


Margaret Sanger


#accident #become #becomes #children #deep

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.


Gus Van Sant


#death #dramatic #even #exactly #guess

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.


William Westmoreland


#broaden #brothers #did #johnson #leave

Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.


Frederick Sanger


#cotton #daughter #i #manufacturer #mother

A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place.


Margaret Sanger


#average #average woman #benefit #desired #gives

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.


Margaret Sanger


#cheap #continue #famine #her #human

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.


Margaret Sanger


#attitude #before #children #choosing #freedom

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.


Margaret Elizabeth Sangster


#fatal #human #human affairs #little #misunderstanding

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing.


Gus Van Sant


#before #characters #classic #direct #doing






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