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Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Flora Tristan

Flora Tristan

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Two things amaze me: the intelligence of beasts and the brutality of men.

Flora Tristan

Flora Tristan

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All the misfortunes of the world come from the forgetfulness and contempt that has been shown to the natural and indispensable rights of women.

Flora Tristan

Flora Tristan

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The law that enslaves women and deprives them of education, also oppresses you, proletarian men. (...) In the name of your own interest, men; in the name of your improvement, yours, men; finally, in the name of the universal welfare of all, I urge you to demand rights for women.

Flora Tristan

Flora Tristan

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The level of civilization achieved by various human societies is in proportion to the independence enjoyed by women.

Cristina Trivulzio di Belgioioso

Cristina Trivulzio di Belgioioso

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The art of overcoming great difficulties is learned and acquired through the habit of facing small ones.

Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky

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A revolution is not worthy of being called such if, with all the power and means at its disposal, it is not capable of helping women—doubly or triply enslaved, as they were in the past—to rise and advance on the path of social and individual progress.

Fernando Trueba

Fernando Trueba

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Reading is pleasure, knowledge, emotion, alienation.

François Truffaut

François Truffaut

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Anyone who cultivates fantasy in art is a little crazy. Their problem lies in making that madness interesting.

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Konstantín Eduardovich Tsiolkovski

Konstantín Eduardovich Tsiolkovski

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At first, fantasy and fable necessarily come to mind. Then mathematical calculations follow, and only in the end does realization crown the thought.

Kurt Tucholsky

Kurt Tucholsky

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The advantage of being intelligent is that it's easier to pass for a fool. The opposite is much more difficult.