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Marie Curie: [H]umanity also needs...

Marie Curie: [H]umanity also needs...

[H]umanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it...

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Sarah Winnemucca: Most of teachers...

Sarah Winnemucca: Most of teachers...

Most of teachers have but one object, viz. to draw their salary. I do not think that a teacher should have no salary....

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Deborah Tannen: [T]he seeds of...

Deborah Tannen: [T]he seeds of...

[T]he seeds of [the Argument Culture] can be found our classrooms, where a teacher will introduce an article or an...

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Chris Evert Lloyd: You've got to...

Chris Evert Lloyd: You've got to...

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the...

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Rachel Carson: Beginnings are apt...

Rachel Carson: Beginnings are apt...

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the...

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Barbara Ward: We cannot cheat...

Barbara Ward: We cannot cheat...

We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about...

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Katherine Dunham: We weren't pushing...

Katherine Dunham: We weren't pushing...

We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

Source: In American...

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Abigail Adams: Learning is not...

Abigail Adams: Learning is not...

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with...

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Mary Todd Lincoln: [O]thers live on...

Mary Todd Lincoln: [O]thers live on...

[O]thers live on in a careless and lukewarm state -- not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: Into each life, some...

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Mae West: I'm no model...

Mae West: I'm no model...

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

Source: In An...

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Corazon Aquino: You, the foreign...

Corazon Aquino: You, the foreign...

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to...

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Carol Moseley-Braun: It's hard to...

Carol Moseley-Braun: It's hard to...

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of...

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Martha Wright Griffiths: My grandmother wanted...

Martha Wright Griffiths: My grandmother wanted...

My grandmother wanted to live long enough to vote for a woman president. I'll be satisfied if I live to see a woman go...

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Christina of Sweden: Fools are more...

Christina of Sweden: Fools are more...

Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

Source: Maxims, 1660-1680, in Pensees...

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Ruth Benedict: It is strange...

Ruth Benedict: It is strange...

It is strange how we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only...

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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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Mary McLeod Bethune: I plunged into...

Mary McLeod Bethune: I plunged into...

I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing . . . Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money...

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Mother Teresa: God is the...

Mother Teresa: God is the...

God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon...

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Amelia Earhart: Women must try...

Amelia Earhart: Women must try...

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to...

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Clare Boothe Luce: Lying increases the...

Clare Boothe Luce: Lying increases the...

Lying increases the creative faculties . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature...

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