"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
-Virginia Woolf
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"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."
-Virginia Woolf
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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."
-Virginia Woolf
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"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."
-Virginia Woolf
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"If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?"
-Virginia Woolf
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"Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."
-Virginia Woolf
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"When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch."
-Michelle Branch
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"The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security."
-Chuck Hagel
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"As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week."
-George J. Mitchell
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"On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live."
-Eric Burdon
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"Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out."
-Richard Cobden
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"I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace."
-Richard Cobden
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