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• From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

  Ernestine Rose

  Husband, Father, Men

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

  James Broughton

  Poetic, Life Is, Born

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• Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.

  John Nelson Darby

  Character, Doe, Different

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• Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Thinking, People

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 33), 1963.

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• "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fear, Hate, Hard Work

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 124), 1963.

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• If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lying, Writing, Men

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, ch. 127, 1963.

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• The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

  Israel Zangwill

  Life, Forgiveness, Memories

  Israel Zangwill (1921). “The Voice of Jerusalem”

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• I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lucky, Looks, Mud

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• In this world, you get what you pay for.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  World, Pay, This World

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.128, Dial Press

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• Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Children, Devil, Agents

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.23, Vanderbilt University Press

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• The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.

  Suzi Quatro

  Writing, Singers, Kind

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• After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

  Harry Seidler

  Europe, Firsts, Architecture

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• Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Travel, Climbing, Dancing

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1963.

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• What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

  Georges Bernanos

  Mother, War, Lying

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.154, Da Capo Press

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• People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Meaningful, Communication, Order

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.152, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

  Norman Wisdom

  Might, Firsts, Life Is

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

  Derek Jacobi

  Business, Thinking, Feet

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• She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Too Much, Moments

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.33, Dial Press

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• She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Heart, World, Pay

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.128, Dial Press

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• The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Form, Treason, Highest

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.98, Dial Press

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• Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Knowing, Knows

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 76), 1963.

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• Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Looks, Sometimes, Wonder

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.11, Dial Press

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• I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Feel Better, Names, Scientist

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 98), 1963.

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• Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Change, Self, Names

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The achievements of the ingenious gentleman, don Quixote de la Mancha. A tr. based on that of P.A. Motteux, with the memoir and notes of J.G. Lockhart”, p.225

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• See the cat? See the cradle?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Cat, Cats Cradle

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.179, Dial Press

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