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Bitches are aggressive, assertive, domineering, overbearing, strong-minded, spiteful, hostile, direct, blunt, candid, obnoxious, t... - MORE Bitches are aggressive, assertive, domineering, overbearing, strong-minded, spiteful, hostile, direct, blunt, candid, obnoxious, thick-skinned, hard-headed, vicious, dogmatic, competent, competitive, pushy, loud-mouthed, independent, stubborn, demanding, manipulative, egoistic, driven, achieving, overwhelming, threatening, scary, ambitious, tough, brassy, masculine, boisterous and turbulent. A Bitch takes shit from no one. You may not like her, but you cannot ignore her.

Joreen

feminism | social/political activism | assertiveness

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Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all... - MORE Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.

Jean Baudrillard

smiling

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Give me th' avowed, th' erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet—perhaps may turn his blow;... - MORE Give me th' avowed, th' erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet—perhaps may turn his blow;
But of all plagues, good Heav'n, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh! save me from the Candid Friend.

George Canning

candor

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Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its... - MORE Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its counterfeits. So much emphasis has been placed upon the false that the significance of the true has been obscured and politics has come to convey the meaning of crafty and cunning selfishness, instead of candid and sincere service.

Calvin Coolidge

politics

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To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a ... - MORE To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candour never waited to be asked for its opinion.

George Eliot

candor

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Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudi... - MORE Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

George Eliot

prayer | speech

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Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgmen... - MORE Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgment, for the sake of perspicuity in the story and the delight and entertainment of our candid reader.

Sarah Fielding

authors | writers and writing | reading

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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow. I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Franz Grillparzer

women | nature | equality

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The history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpations ... all of which have in direct object th... - MORE The history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpations ... all of which have in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world, for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.

Thomas Jefferson

King George III | tyranny

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The sun such an anointment
Upon the forehead, on the hands and feet,... - MORE The sun such an anointment
Upon the forehead, on the hands and feet,
That all air is appointed
Our candid clothing, our elapsing state.

Philip Larkin

sun | air

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