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Doroth?e DeLuzy: Employment and ennui...

Doroth?e DeLuzy: Employment and ennui...

Employment and ennui are simply incompatible.

Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury...

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Joan L Curcio: Courageous risks are...

Joan L Curcio: Courageous risks are...

Courageous risks are life giving, they help you grow, make you brave and better than you think you...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: When a noble...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: When a noble...

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of...

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Anne Wilson Schaef: I realize that...

Anne Wilson Schaef: I realize that...

I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel...

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Jackie Moms Mabley: Love is like...

Jackie Moms Mabley: Love is like...

Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move.

Source:...

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Ellen Swallow Richards: I hope that...

Ellen Swallow Richards: I hope that...

I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open.

Source: In Vassar...

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Isabelle Eberhardt: For those who...

Isabelle Eberhardt: For those who...

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of...

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Rachel Carson: The ocean is...

Rachel Carson: The ocean is...

The ocean is a place of paradoxes.

Source: Atlantic Monthly, 9/1/1937
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Marie Curie: Nothing in life...

Marie Curie: Nothing in life...

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Source: In Peter's...

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Sarah Winnemucca: If you make...

Sarah Winnemucca: If you make...

If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. . . . Be kind to bad and good, for you don't know your...

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Isabelle Eberhardt: A nomad I...

Isabelle Eberhardt: A nomad I...

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

Source:...

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Peg Bracken: It's easier to...

Peg Bracken: It's easier to...

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

Source: But I...

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: The essence of...

Eleanor Holmes Norton: The essence of...

The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the...

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Barbara Jordan: Education remains the...

Barbara Jordan: Education remains the...

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Source: In...

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Ruth Benedict: If we justify...

Ruth Benedict: If we justify...

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not...

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Hannah Arendt: Ideas, as distinguished...

Hannah Arendt: Ideas, as distinguished...

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

Source: In The...

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Anne Sullivan: My heart is...

Anne Sullivan: My heart is...

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little...

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Emily James Putnam: The selfishness that...

Emily James Putnam: The selfishness that...

The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and...

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Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: We write our...

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: We write our...

We write our own destiny; we become what we do.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Emma Hart Willard: While their sisters...

Emma Hart Willard: While their sisters...

While their sisters are gliding through the mazes of the midnight dance, [sons] employ the lamp, to treasure up for...

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