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• The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind has no enjoyment, and which only afford a temporary relief to languor by steeping the senses in forgetfulness; but in the precious pleasures of the intellect, so easily accessible by all mankind, the great have no exclusive privilege; for such enjoyments are only to be procured by our own industry.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Mind, Relief, May

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• The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

  Vida Dutton Scudder

  Spiritual, Quests, Common

  Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

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• Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.

  Joseph Hertz

  Men, Sacred, Makers

  Joseph Herman Hertz (1936). “Hamishah Humshe Torah Im Ha-Hafterot: Genesis”

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• Possess the spirit of independence. The Americans do, and why should not you? Possess the spirit of men, bold and enterprising, fearless and undaunted. Sue for your rights and privileges. Know the reason that you cannot attain them. Weary them with your importunities. You can but die, if you make the attempt; we shall certainly die if you do not. The Americans have practised nothing but head-work these 200 years, and we have done their drudgery. And is it not high time for us to imitate their examples, and practise head-work too, and keep what we have got, and get what we can?

  Maria W. Stewart

  Men, Rights, Years

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• I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him agesof education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.

  Frances Harper

  Children, Reading, Heart

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• So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move ahead without woman's sharing in the movement, and to help give a right impetus to that movement is woman's highest privilege.

  Frances Harper

  Women, Moving, Giving

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• Philanthropy is the rent we pay for the joy and privilege we have for our space on this earth.

  Jerold Panas

  Space, Joy, Earth

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• It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice whatsoever in the work process and were viewed not as human beings but as alienated forms of individual wealth. Slavery, in this sense, did not die; it continues in modern dress in contemporary organizations wherever managers exercise autocratic power, unequal status, or arbitrary privileges, no matter how scientific the terminology or postmodern the image

  Kenneth Cloke

  Exercise, Organization, Voice

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• The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Sex, War, Men

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• It is of course, entirely possible that men (or anyone who is relatively privileged) are most defensive, most obstinate and unseeing when they are worried about losing privileges.... In the reactions of husbands, I detect a haunting worry about what they will lose when true gender equality arrives.

  Faye J Crosby

  Husband, Women, Worry

  Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone

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• If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.

  Eric Idle

  Laughter, Special, Groups

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• People may surprise you with unexpected kindness. Dogs have a depth of loyalty that often we seem unworthy of. But the love of a cat is a blessing, a privilege in this world.

  Kinky Friedman

  Loyalty, Dog, Kindness

  Kinky Friedman (2011). “Kinky's Celebrity Pet Files”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Unique, World, Remember

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• Perhaps we should stop talking about being faithful to have a quiet time with God each day, as if we were doing something to earn a reward. It would be better to talk about the privilege of spending time with the God of the universe and the importance for our own sake of being consistent in that practice.

  Jerry Bridges

  Practice, Talking, Faithful

  Jerry Bridges (1991). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love”, Navpress Publishing Group

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• You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. ...Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. ...Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Children, Destiny

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• Ever since time began (when was that, I wonder?), it's been moving ever forward without a moment's rest. And one of the privileges given to those who've avoided dying young is the blessed
  right to grow old.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Blessed, Dying

  "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2007.

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• It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

  James A. Garfield

  Inheritance, Sacred, Fit

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2”, p.792, Best Books on

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• There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determinefor the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities, and allow them all their privilege.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grace, World, Mercury

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.86, 谷月社

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• I discovered several never-failing signs by which one might know when a man wished to take another wife. He would suddenly 'awaken to a sense of his duties'; he would have serious misgiving as to whether the Lord would pardon his neglect in not living up to his privileges; he would become very religious, and would attend to his meetings ... which seemed just then to be very numerous, and in various other ways he would show his anxiety to live up to his religion.

  T. B. H. Stenhouse

  Religious, Men, Wife

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• There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, War, Views

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.250, Princeton University Press

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• No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours.

  Max Lucado

  Teacher, Uncles, Children

  Max Lucado (2014). “Dad Time: Savoring the God-Given Moments of Fatherhood”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Eye, Thinking, Years

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• When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.

  Catharine Beecher

  Jesus, Hands, Example

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• The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Loses, Judged

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• It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.

  Rich Robinson

  Music, Disappointment, Regret

  "Black Crowes have broken up, says Rich Robinson". www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2015.

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