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Alice Meynell: The sense of...

Alice Meynell: The sense of...

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of...

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Whitney Houston: I was aware...

Whitney Houston: I was aware...

I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in trance. I just stared at the clock in the...

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Catherine the Great: I praise loudly,...

Catherine the Great: I praise loudly,...

I praise loudly, I blame softly

Source: Letter, 23 Aug 1794.
-- Catherine the...

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Nancy Reagan: I don't think...

Nancy Reagan: I don't think...

I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an...

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Pat Nixon: I'll have to...

Pat Nixon: I'll have to...

I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the...

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Pat Nixon: I have sacrificed...

Pat Nixon: I have sacrificed...

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious in order to advance the political career of my...

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Goldie Hawn: Once you can...

Goldie Hawn: Once you can...

Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If...

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Helen Gahagan Douglas: If one lets...

Helen Gahagan Douglas: If one lets...

If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged...

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Bessie Smith: No time to...

Bessie Smith: No time to...

No time to marry, no time to settle down;
I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin'...

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Drew Barrymore: God made a...

Drew Barrymore: God made a...

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs...

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Barbara Jordan: Do not call...

Barbara Jordan: Do not call...

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Source: Barbara...

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Barbara Mikulski: America is not...

Barbara Mikulski: America is not...

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

Source: Speech, First...

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Elizabeth II: It is easy...

Elizabeth II: It is easy...

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular...

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Rose Elizabeth Bird: It's always the...

Rose Elizabeth Bird: It's always the...

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits . . . of the majority are...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: That past which...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: That past which...

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past...

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Paule Marshall: Once a great...

Paule Marshall: Once a great...

Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive....

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Ariel Durant: The conservative who...

Ariel Durant: The conservative who...

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

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Lydia M Child: Every man deems...

Lydia M Child: Every man deems...

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear;...

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Djuna Barnes: After all, it...

Djuna Barnes: After all, it...

After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: Leaving behind books...

Marguerite Yourcenar: Leaving behind books...

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful -- there are far too many children.

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