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Helen Keller: There is plenty...

Helen Keller: There is plenty...

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.

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Helen Keller: As selfishness and...

Helen Keller: As selfishness and...

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the...

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Dorothy Parker: He lies below,...

Dorothy Parker: He lies below,...

He lies below, correct in cypress wood,
And entertains the most exclusive worms.


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Martha Beck: Whoever said love...

Martha Beck: Whoever said love...

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest...

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Patricia Fripp: People who concentrate...

Patricia Fripp: People who concentrate...

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How...

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Ada Louise Huxtable: A disaster where...

Ada Louise Huxtable: A disaster where...

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Source: On...

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Marie de Sevigne: It is sometimes...

Marie de Sevigne: It is sometimes...

It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.
(Il faut glisser sur les pense?s et ne...

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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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Alice Roosevelt Longworth: I've always believed...

Alice Roosevelt Longworth: I've always believed...

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested...

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Diane Sawyer: Whatever you want...

Diane Sawyer: Whatever you want...

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that...

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Irene Thomas: It should be...

Irene Thomas: It should be...

It should be a very happy marriage - they are both so much in love with him.

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Sheilah Graham: No one has...

Sheilah Graham: No one has...

No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.

Source: The Rest of the Story,...

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Helen Lawrenson: A skirt is...

Helen Lawrenson: A skirt is...

A skirt is no obstacle to extemporaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is...

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Gail Sheehy: Over the next...

Gail Sheehy: Over the next...

Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

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Germaine Greer: Human beings have...

Germaine Greer: Human beings have...

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called...

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Germaine Greer: Our whole lives...

Germaine Greer: Our whole lives...

Our whole lives are lived in a tangle of telling, not telling, misleading, allowing to know, concealing, eavesdropping...

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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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Shana Alexander: Until quite recently...

Shana Alexander: Until quite recently...

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .

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Suzanne Curchod Necker: Worship your heroes...

Suzanne Curchod Necker: Worship your heroes...

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Marsha Sinetar: You may feel...

Marsha Sinetar: You may feel...

You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered,...

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