We are no more free agents ...

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
 Mary Wortley Montagu

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

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Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.
 Mary Wortley Montagu
I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.
 Mary Wortley Montagu
It's in no way my interest (according to the common acceptance of that word) to convince the world of their errors; that is, I shall get nothing from it but the private satisfaction of having done good to mankind, and I know nobody that reckons that satisfaction any part of their interest.
 Mary Wortley Montagu
The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.
 Mary Wortley Montagu
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
 Mary Wortley Montagu