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Ann Landers: If you want...

Ann Landers: If you want...

If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.

Source: In The...

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Amelia Barr: There are no...

Amelia Barr: There are no...

There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if...

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Amelia Barr: . . ....

Amelia Barr: . . ....

. . . it is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Source: All the Days of...

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Judith Martin: When a society...

Judith Martin: When a society...

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly...

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Clara McBride Hale: If you can't...

Clara McBride Hale: If you can't...

If you can't hold [children] in your arms, please hold them in your heart.

Source:...

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Jane Addams: In his own...

Jane Addams: In his own...

In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his...

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Josephine St Pierre Ruffin: [W]e need to...

Josephine St Pierre Ruffin: [W]e need to...

[W]e need to talk over not only those things which are of vital importance to us as women, but also the things that...

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Anne Frank: We all live...

Anne Frank: We all live...

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the...

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Anne Frank: One must apply...

Anne Frank: One must apply...

One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I...

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Jane Welsh Carlyle: The surest way...

Jane Welsh Carlyle: The surest way...

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of...

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Marge Piercy: A new idea...

Marge Piercy: A new idea...

A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces
More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne.
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Sara Jeannette Duncan: Clothes and courage...

Sara Jeannette Duncan: Clothes and courage...

Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.

Source: In Barnes & Noble Book...

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Sandra Day O'Connor: It is difficult...

Sandra Day O'Connor: It is difficult...

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful...

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Paule Marshall: Sometimes a person...

Paule Marshall: Sometimes a person...

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back -- to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them --...

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Nothing contributes so...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Nothing contributes so...

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its...

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Jessamyn West: Memory is a...

Jessamyn West: Memory is a...

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: Do what you...

Eleanor Roosevelt: Do what you...

Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.

Source: In...

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Barbara Jordan: I never intended...

Barbara Jordan: I never intended...

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

Source:
-- Barbara Jordan,...

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Eva Peron: Our President has...

Eva Peron: Our President has...

Our President has declared that the only privileged person in our country are the...

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Eva Peron: If I fall,...

Eva Peron: If I fall,...

If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing.

Source:...

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