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Aimee Semple Mcpherson: O Hope! dazzling,...

Aimee Semple Mcpherson: O Hope! dazzling,...

O Hope! dazzling, radiant Hope! -- What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and...

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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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Rachel Carson: The ocean is...

Rachel Carson: The ocean is...

The ocean is a place of paradoxes.

Source: Atlantic Monthly, 9/1/1937
-- Rachel...

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Ellen Swallow Richards: The Faculty [of...

Ellen Swallow Richards: The Faculty [of...

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as...

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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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Barbara McClintock: When you know...

Barbara McClintock: When you know...

When you know you're right, you don't care what others think. You know sooner or later it will come out in the...

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Deborah Tannen: The biggest mistake...

Deborah Tannen: The biggest mistake...

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation -- or a...

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Francesca Annis: It's like a...

Francesca Annis: It's like a...

It's like a fire. It goes through a journey, and each stage is interesting. I don't regret the passing of time. I try...

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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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Marjorie Rosen: Which is strongest...

Marjorie Rosen: Which is strongest...

Which is strongest the reality out of which the illusion is created, the celluloid illusion itself, or the need for...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: If our people...

Mary McLeod Bethune: If our people...

If our people are to fight their way out of bondage we must arm them with the sword and the shield and the buckler of...

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Svetlana Alliluyeva: It is human...

Svetlana Alliluyeva: It is human...

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

Source: On...

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Svetlana Alliluyeva: God grants an...

Svetlana Alliluyeva: God grants an...

God grants an easy death only to the just.

Source: Twenty Letters to a Friend,...

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Margaret Thatcher: It's passionately interesting...

Margaret Thatcher: It's passionately interesting...

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just...

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Chris Evert Lloyd: Now that I'm...

Chris Evert Lloyd: Now that I'm...

Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was -- the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a...

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Martina Navratilova: I came to...

Martina Navratilova: I came to...

I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been...

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Anna Kournikova: The courts are...

Anna Kournikova: The courts are...

The courts are as a stage, people love to see attractive players.

Source:
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Geraldine Ferraro: We've chosen the...

Geraldine Ferraro: We've chosen the...

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

Source: In Words...

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Hannah Arendt: The ceaseless, senseless...

Hannah Arendt: The ceaseless, senseless...

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible,...

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Chris Evert Lloyd: Every time, all...

Chris Evert Lloyd: Every time, all...

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

Source:...

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