The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
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The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.
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Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
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