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it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart. MARY XAVIER To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it again... MARY OLIVER Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving. MARY BATESON Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. MARY BLY In violence, we forget who we are MARY MCCARTHY Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena. MARY AUSTIN I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice. MARY BERRY It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness. MARY ASTOR Congress MARY MCCARTHY The incipient institution needs some stabilizing principle to stop its premature demise. That stabil... MARY DOUGLAS In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very s... MARY RENAULT It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. MARY RENAULT Watching my parents I've learnt a lesson many do not recognize. True love is not signaled by romanti... MARY KATE The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace ... MARY CONNEALY Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and ro... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. MARY HIRSCH Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child. MARY MACCRACKEN I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it. MARY CHASE Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing th... MARY ROACH