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“With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head, but are led away by mere humour and fancy. If instead of a companion for life, they had to choose a partner in a country-dance or to trifle away an hour with, their mode of calculation would be right. They tie their true-lover's knot with idle, thoughtless haste, while the institutions of society render it indissoluble.”

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.”

“now the profile of our country looks a little less hard nosed / but that picket line persisted and that clinic's since been closed / they keep pounding their fists on reality hoping it will break / but I don't think there's a one of us leads a life free of mistakes”

Thinking Looks Littles Country Hard Reality Lines Mistake Break Our Country Fists Profile Clinic

Author:Ani DiFranco

“I feel it's so easy to condemn this country [the United States]; but they don't understand that this is where the mistakes are being made - and made first, so that we're going to get the answers first.”

Feels Firsts Made Country States Easy Answers United Mistake United States

Author:Christopher Isherwood

“It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.”

Thinking Country Bigs Causes Sides Sin Mistake One Thing Pride Corners Commit Big Mistake Sin Of Pride

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Clinton's major problem, and the two aren't separable really because there is hope in the country, the hope - - optimism has slipped dramatically, make no mistake about every measurement shows that. But the hope is still there. Hope is with him. People want change. They see him as the best chance for change.”

People Want Stills Two Country Shows Problem Chance Mistake Majors Optimism Clinton Measurement There Is Hope Major Problems

Author:Mark Shields

“One must not allow oneself to skid down to isolationism and unbridled economic egoism. ... The second possible mistake would be excessive interference into the economic life of the country. And the absolute faith into the all-mightiness of the state.”

Country States Would Be Mistake Responsibility History Power Economic Honesty Capitalism Economics Absolutes Oneself Debt Socialism Taxation Egoism Interference Isolationism

Author:Vladimir Putin

“For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last night that asserted that the famous AK-47 - the original peoples' rifle (and Authority's greatest mistake) - is rare in this country, and that the only ones here were originally smuggled in from the Middle East, or possibly from South America. The idiots who wrote this mess seemed unaware that after legal imports - mostly from China - were illegally cut off by executive order, they began to be manufactured here.”

“God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants everyone to have an opportunity to hear. Then He would have us move on to other areas. The mistake of the church has been that she sits down to convert all the people in one country to the neglect of the great masses who have never had the chance to hear the gospel - not even once!”

People Want Persons Has Beens Country Moving Opportunity Church Chance Mistake Mass Areas Neglect

Book:Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear

Source: Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear

“We have a tendency in this country that when we say Black it automatically means Black Americans. But that's a big mistake, and that keeps us divided. There are Blacks all over this entire world-even in Africa.”

World Mean Country Bigs Black Mistake Tendencies Divided Big Mistake

Author:Irene Cara