"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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"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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"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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"I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise."
-Ron Wyden
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"The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see."
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"Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time."
-Gerald R. Ford
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"I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman."
-Bob Kane
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"The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature."
-Lewis Thomas
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