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Eileen Caddy: Expect your every...

Eileen Caddy: Expect your every...

Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level . ....

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Sojourner Truth: The rich rob...

Sojourner Truth: The rich rob...

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

Source: Saying.
-- Sojourner...

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Rosa Parks: It was not...

Rosa Parks: It was not...

It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made and demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his...

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Virginia Woolf: My own brain...

Virginia Woolf: My own brain...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then...

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Erma Bombeck: The suburbs were...

Erma Bombeck: The suburbs were...

The suburbs were discovered, quite by accident, one day in the early 1940's by a Welcome Wagon lady who was...

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Helen Keller: The most pathetic...

Helen Keller: The most pathetic...

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision.

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Marian Wright Edelman: Parents have become...

Marian Wright Edelman: Parents have become...

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Taught from infancy...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Taught from infancy...

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt...

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Gail Sheehy: Phases of the...

Gail Sheehy: Phases of the...

Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties...

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Alice Duer Miller: The innate tendency...

Alice Duer Miller: The innate tendency...

The innate tendency [of men] to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government . . . Man's...

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Jessye Norman: I am grateful...

Jessye Norman: I am grateful...

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

Source: c. 1981; in...

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Hannah Cowley: O lord! your...

Hannah Cowley: O lord! your...

O lord! your wise men are the greatest fools upon earth; they reason about their enjoyments, and analyse their...

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Rita Rudner: Someday I want...

Rita Rudner: Someday I want...

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to...

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Rita Rudner: My husband and...

Rita Rudner: My husband and...

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our...

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Hedda Hopper: Two of the...

Hedda Hopper: Two of the...

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox...

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Ava Gardner: After my screen...

Ava Gardner: After my screen...

After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled, She can't talk! She can't act! She's...

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Sally Field: I never really...

Sally Field: I never really...

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with...

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Patricia Neal: Gort. Klaatu baraada...

Patricia Neal: Gort. Klaatu baraada...

Gort. Klaatu baraada nikto. (to the robot Gort)

Source: The Day the Earth Stood...

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Maria Schell: I love the...

Maria Schell: I love the...

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the...

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Loretta Swit: M*A*S*H offered real...

Loretta Swit: M*A*S*H offered real...

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was...

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