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Every revolution has its counter-revolution.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
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Comfort, however, easily merges into license.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Comfort
License
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The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Defense
Lying
Self
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The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Calculations
Philanthropy
Results
Beyond
Calculation
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Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Action
Study
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Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Doe
Gay
One Day
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Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Degrees
Democracy
Violence
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Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Helping Others
People
Philosophy
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the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
America
Media
Used
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Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
History
Energy
Expression
Hunger
Associated
Narrowly
Viewed
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In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Care
Greek
Matter
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One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Delicate
Japan
Loveliness
Extraordinarily
Restrained
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Change
Inspirational
Inspiring
Life
Travel
Ideas
Permanent
Seeing
More
Living
Certainly
Deep
Goes
Sights
Than
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It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Entering
Greeks
Muses
Professions
Recently
Succeeded
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The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Women
Dogma
Fantastic
Historical
Human Mind
Mind
Subjection
Complete
Myths
Rated
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Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Book
Lasts
Pages
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Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Travel
Bizarre
Pacific
Similarity
Surprise
Astonish
Atlantic
Nobody Else
Wherever
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In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Boat
Survivor
Writing
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Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Critics
Mass
Reality
Toiling
Veils
World
Below
Feast
Lifted
Revolts
Separates
Veil
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The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
History
Men
Race
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In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Achievement
Long
Rights
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History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Age
Civilization
Struggle
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The trade agreement has become a rather distinct feature of the American labor movement. ... It is based on the idea that labor shall accept the capitalist system of production and make terms of peace with it.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Agreement
Ideas
Movement
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Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and caves was a civilizing triumph.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Men
Civilization
Hunting
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It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Agree
Headlines
Journalism
Long
Paper
Papers
Reader
Automatically
Beneath
Carried
Grievous
More And More
Respects
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The interactions of business and culture, one upon the other, form one of the least explored phases of history. For such a study, no city would appear better fixed than Florence, so richly dowered with both economic and spiritual vitality.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Cities
Florence
Spiritual
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While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings-upon the spirit that animates mankind.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Agency
Civilization
Expression
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We of the third sphere are unable to look at Europe or at Asia as they may survey each other. Wherever we go, across Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre.' Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Travel
Europe
Looks
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Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Women
Sex
Strong
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To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Ignorance
Mother
Responsibility
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If this analysis of history is approximately sound and if the future like the past is to be crowded with changes and exigencies, then it is difficult to believe that the feminism of the passing generation, already hardened into dogma and tradition, represents the completed form of woman's relations to work, interests and society.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Believe
Feminism
Past
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... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era may witness the first female engineer, motor truck chauffeur, radio broadcaster, head of an aviation school, or federal prohibition officer, but it has not produced the first thinking, creative, and writing woman by any means.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Art
Running
Writing
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For hundreds of years the use of the word 'man' has troubled critical scholars, careful translators, and lawyers. Difficulties occur whenever and wherever it is important for truth-seeking purposes to know what is being talked about and the context gives no intimation whether 'man' means just a human being irrespective of sex or means a masculine being and none other.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Men
Mean
Sex
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Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political economy, in a matrix of interests and knowledge. It is not a free-swinging phenomenon like a balloon without moorings. It is not produced in a vacuum and, being creative, it does not work in a vacuum. Nurtured on things experienced and things known, it reaches out toward the unknown like a flower on a stalk growing out of the soil.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Flower
Ideas
Philosophy
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The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.
Mary Ritter Beard / Historian
Running
Men
Mean
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