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Maya Angelou: Each of us...

Maya Angelou: Each of us...

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead and . . . if the future road looms...

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Mary Pettibone Poole: He who laughs,...

Mary Pettibone Poole: He who laughs,...

He who laughs, lasts.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, ed. Robert...

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Anna Jameson: What we truly...

Anna Jameson: What we truly...

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the...

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Diane Trilling: Touch a university...

Diane Trilling: Touch a university...

Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.

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Helen Keller: A child ....

Helen Keller: A child ....

A child . . . must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to...

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Sarah Ban Breathnach: Let's choose today...

Sarah Ban Breathnach: Let's choose today...

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already...

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Dorothy Uhnak: It was all...

Dorothy Uhnak: It was all...

It was all in the orchestration, he claimed: in knowing how and where to pitch each and every particular argument; who...

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Mary Wilson Little: In some parts...

Mary Wilson Little: In some parts...

In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no...

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Elizabeth Janeway: If one is...

Elizabeth Janeway: If one is...

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

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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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Peggy Noonan: Speeches are not...

Peggy Noonan: Speeches are not...

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Source:...

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Alice Embree: Shortly after the...

Alice Embree: Shortly after the...

Shortly after the turn of the century, America marshalled her resources, contracted painfully, and gave birth to the...

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Gail Sheehy: We hear the...

Gail Sheehy: We hear the...

We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any...

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Susan L Taylor: Use missteps as...

Susan L Taylor: Use missteps as...

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

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Anna Quindlen: New York City...

Anna Quindlen: New York City...

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a...

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Jean Kerr: You don't seem...

Jean Kerr: You don't seem...

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy....

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Kate Chopin: The past was...

Kate Chopin: The past was...

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never...

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Olympia Brown: Fortuitous circumstances constitute...

Olympia Brown: Fortuitous circumstances constitute...

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an...

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Margaret Fuller: The especial genius...

Margaret Fuller: The especial genius...

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, and spiritual in...

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Simone de Beauvoir: It's frightening to...

Simone de Beauvoir: It's frightening to...

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the...

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