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You and I, Ella, we are the failures. We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known. They have known for thousands of years that to lock a sick person into solitary confinement makes him worse. They have known for thousands of years that a poor man who is frightened of his landlord and of the police is a slave. They have known it. We know it. But do the great enlightened mass of the British people know it? No. It is our task, Ella, yours and mine, to tell them. Because the great men are too great to be bothered. They are already discovering how to colonise Venus and to irrigate the moon. That is what is important for our time. You and I are the boulder-pushers. All our lives, you and I, we'll put all our energies, all our talents, into pushing a great boulder up a mountain. The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind. We push the boulder.
Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook stupidity truth

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HELL 302 clues
TRUTH 150 clues
HEAVEN 141 clues
STUPIDITY 27 clues

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  1. Book by Doris Lessing 76.47%
  2. Novelist Lessing 75.86%
  3. Author Lessing 74.07%
  4. Writer Lessing 74.07%
  5. Doris' dresses? 69.23%
  6. Doris Leak's husband. 66.67%
  7. Doris Actress and singer 64.86%
  8. Doris Meissner's agcy. 64.71%
  9. Doris or Clarence 60.00%
  10. Doris ___, U. S. painter 60.00%
  11. Doris Day refrain 60.00%
  12. British novelist Lessing 59.46%
  13. Doris of films 59.26%
  14. Doris Duke, e.g. 59.26%
  15. Doris's wisdom? 59.26%
  16. Doris ___, tennis champion. 58.82%
  17. Doris and Clarence 58.06%
  18. Doris's 1937 diversion? 57.14%
  19. Doris or Dennis 57.14%
  20. Doris's protege? 57.14%
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Unscramble DORIS5-letter words that start with D5-letter words that end in S5-letter words containing OR5-letter words containing IS5-letter words with D and O
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Hint 1 meaning
A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety.
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