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Maria Montessori: The teacher must...

Maria Montessori: The teacher must...

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must...

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Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: Delicacy is to...

Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: Delicacy is to...

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby...

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St Teresa of Avila: I only wish...

St Teresa of Avila: I only wish...

I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying...

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Chris Evert Lloyd: If you can...

Chris Evert Lloyd: If you can...

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it...

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Maria Mitchell: People have to...

Maria Mitchell: People have to...

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can...

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Cornelia Otis Skinner: [T]he food choice...

Cornelia Otis Skinner: [T]he food choice...

[T]he food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those...

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Ruth Benedict: It is strange...

Ruth Benedict: It is strange...

It is strange how we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only...

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Anne Sullivan: Keep on beginning...

Anne Sullivan: Keep on beginning...

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have...

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Maria Montessori: Never help a...

Maria Montessori: Never help a...

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Source: In The...

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Mary Ritter Beard: In their quest...

Mary Ritter Beard: In their quest...

In their quest for rights they [women] have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs, rather than their achievements...

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Svetlana Alliluyeva: Moscow, breathing fire...

Svetlana Alliluyeva: Moscow, breathing fire...

Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its...

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Amelia Earhart: Obviously I faced...

Amelia Earhart: Obviously I faced...

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really...

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Rachel Carson: It is a...

Rachel Carson: It is a...

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to...

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Marie Curie: I have no...

Marie Curie: I have no...

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be...

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Susanna Moodie: Large parties given...

Susanna Moodie: Large parties given...

Large parties given to very young children . . . foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress...

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Lucretia Mott: I resolved to...

Lucretia Mott: I resolved to...

I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which, by custom and a perverted...

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Clara Barton: . . ....

Clara Barton: . . ....

. . . the surest test of discipline is its absence.

Source: The Story
-- Clara...

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Barbara Tuchman: What his imagination...

Barbara Tuchman: What his imagination...

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection,...

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Gail Pursell Elliott: We create our...

Gail Pursell Elliott: We create our...

We create our own destiny with our choices and decisions. We can base these decisions upon the awareness of our inner...

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M F K Fisher: In America we...

M F K Fisher: In America we...

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation...

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