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• An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone - nor sacrifice anyone to myself.'

  Ayn Rand

  Running, Sacrifice, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.231, Penguin

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• Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence - by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the heartless strife of commercial existence. So do we get our light. So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed - only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

  Nikola Tesla

  Selfish, Struggle, Heart

  "The Transmission Of Electrical Energy Without Wires As A Means For Furthering Peace". "Electrical World and Engineer", (pp. 21-24), January 7, 1905.

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• Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

  Tori Amos

  Thinking, Earth, Adolescence

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• Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.

  Ogden Nash

  Thinking, Survival, Arms

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• My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

  Ani DiFranco

  Inspiring, Determination, Self

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• Just saying no prevents teenage pregnancy the way 'Have a nice day' cures chronic depression.

  Faye Wattleton

  Sex, Teenage, Nice

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• It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.

  Tina Weymouth

  Years, Eight, Rocks

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• The Problem is: many terrific women have made themselves overqualified for the job of wife, because many men are looking for a woman with 'receptionist-level wife skills', not 'CEO-level wife skills'. Meaning: If a woman doesn't hang on a man's every word, is too independent, challenges his leadership, wants to create her own hours, demands emotional raises, then there won't be as many openings for the kind of wife position she is seeking. One of the big problems with marriages in the nineties: no room for two husbands.

  Karen Salmansohn

  Jobs, Husband, Independent

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• She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said "mother," everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said "child".

  Terry Pratchett

  Mother, Children, Cat

  "Carpe Jugulum". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1998.

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• Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

  Isak Dinesen

  Wine, Later In Life, People

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.83, Vintage

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• I jest, of course; premature ejaculation isn't a laughing matter for anyone, except for your friends when you tell them about it on the phone the next morning. My first marriage ended because the main event was invariably over before my husband got his socks off.

  Julie Burchill

  Morning, Husband, Phones

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• The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

  Alice Meynell

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.15, eBookIt.com

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• I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

  Gloria Steinem

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Fourth - and by Far the Most Recent - 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1990)

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• I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupid, Simple, People

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.191, Courier Corporation

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• Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Creative, Information, Pursuit

  Stephen Jay Gould (1992). “Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History”, p.201, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What does it mean to feel "in control" of your life? What I mean by control is the ability to make a choice. Personal sovereignty means that you choose from what is available in order to be intentional about your life...When you feel in control of your life, you know yourself to be the author of your own actions and know that you always have choices.

  Polly Young-Eisendrath

  Mean, Order, Control Of Your Life

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• Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Games, Play

  Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.121, Random House

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• My heart goes out to the people of the city of Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost loved ones in such a senseless and heartless way.

  Matt Damon

  Inspiring, Prayer, Lost Love

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• All alike, you men. You only want the satisfaction of being through with us first, that's all. So far I've had the good fortune of beating you to it. So I am heartless.

  Greta Garbo

  Men, Want, Satisfaction

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• Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken; or not broken, it simply wasn't there any more. It had been scooped neatly out of me like the yolk from a hard-boiled egg, leaving the rest of me bloodless and congealed and hollow. I'm heartless, I thought. Therefore I'm homeless.

  Margaret Atwood

  Home, Heart, Eggs

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.447, Anchor

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• I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others. But, God knows best, I concluded. There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them.

  Anne Bronte

  Sorry, Selfish, Men

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.691, Penguin

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• I couldn't give a rat's tutu about your emotional distress

  Judy Sheindlin

  Emotional, Giving, Rats

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• Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.

  H. L. Mencken

  Husband, Men, Listening

  "Prejudices". Fourth Series,

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• Haven't you got any romance in your soul?" said Magrat plaintively. "No," said Granny. "I ain't. And stars don't care what you wish, and magic don't make things better, and no one doesn't get burned who sticks their hand in a fire. If you want to amount to anything as a witch, Magrat Garlick, you got to learn three things. What's real, what's not real, and what's the difference.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Real, Differences

  "Witches Abroad". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

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• I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God damn'; that 'an artist, a man, a failure' is no mere whenfully accreting mechanism, but a givingly eternal complexity-neither some soulless and heartless ultrapredatory infra-animal nor any understandingly knowing and believing and thinking automaton, but a naturally and miraculously whole human being-a feelingly illimitable individual; whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow.

  e. e. cummings

  Believe, Artist, Animal

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