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All sincere and earnest search after truth, even where it fails to reach it, yet, often comes so near to it, that other minds more happily situated may be led, by pointing out its very limitations and errors, to obtain a larger view.
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In love there is no first nor last!
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For equal work equally well performed by a man and by a woman, it is ordained that the woman on the ground of her sex alone shall receive a less recompense.
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Give us labour and the training which fits for labour! We demand this, not for ourselves alone, but for the race.
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The past material conditions of life have gone for ever; no will of man can recall them.
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We demand nothing more than this, and we will take nothing less.
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We make this demand, not for our own sakes alone, but for the succour of the race.
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The ultimate effect of parasitism is always a paralysis of the will and an inability to compel oneself into any course of action for the moment unpleasurable and exhaustive.
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That even one individual in a society should be debarred from undertaking that form of social toil for which it is most fitted, makes an unnecessary deficit in the general social assets.
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Free trade in labour and equality of training, intellectual or physical, is essential if the organic aptitudes of a sex or class are to be determined.