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Grace Murray Hopper: If it's a...

Grace Murray Hopper: If it's a...

If it's a good idea . . . go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get...

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Pearl Buck: I am comforted...

Pearl Buck: I am comforted...

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place...

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Pearl Buck: Inside myself is...

Pearl Buck: Inside myself is...

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where you renew your springs that never dry...

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George Sand: One approaches the...

George Sand: One approaches the...

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

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Alice Walker: People tend to...

Alice Walker: People tend to...

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only...

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Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: Of all the...

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: Of all the...

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: The timing of...

Mary Catherine Bateson: The timing of...

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded...

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Jane Harrison: To be meek,...

Jane Harrison: To be meek,...

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: The delicate and...

Catharine Esther Beecher: The delicate and...

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like...

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Dorothy L Sayers: Paradoxical as it...

Dorothy L Sayers: Paradoxical as it...

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in...

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Maria Edgeworth: When one illusion...

Maria Edgeworth: When one illusion...

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I...

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Margery Allingham: He did not...

Margery Allingham: He did not...

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash...

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Jane Austen: I think I...

Jane Austen: I think I...

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to...

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Mary Frances Berry: The time when...

Mary Frances Berry: The time when...

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be...

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Golda Meir: Old age is...

Golda Meir: Old age is...

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can...

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Dianne Feinstein: You have to...

Dianne Feinstein: You have to...

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play it better than anyone...

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Bernadette Devlin: Yesterday I dared...

Bernadette Devlin: Yesterday I dared...

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

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Isabelle Eberhardt: The farther behind...

Isabelle Eberhardt: The farther behind...

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

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Maya Angelou: I made the...

Maya Angelou: I made the...

I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over...

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Maya Angelou: I speak to...

Maya Angelou: I speak to...

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition -- about what we can endure, dream,...

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