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Barbara Tuchman: To a historian...

Barbara Tuchman: To a historian...

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Source: Practising...

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Barbara Tuchman: To be a...

Barbara Tuchman: To be a...

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of...

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Corrie Ten Boom: The measure of...

Corrie Ten Boom: The measure of...

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Source:...

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Corrie Ten Boom: It is not...

Corrie Ten Boom: It is not...

It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.

Source: In...

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Hannah Arendt: There are no...

Hannah Arendt: There are no...

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Source: In The New...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The desire of...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The desire of...

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the...

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Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: Hope says to...

Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: Hope says to...

Hope says to us constantly, Go on, go on, and leads us to the grave.

Source: In...

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Geraldine Ferraro: I should have...

Geraldine Ferraro: I should have...

I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.

Source: On initial...

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Barbara Bush: I'm not a...

Barbara Bush: I'm not a...

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: I think somehow,...

Eleanor Roosevelt: I think somehow,...

I think somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

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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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Queen Victoria: The Queen is...

Queen Victoria: The Queen is...

The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of...

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Margaret Mead: We need every...

Margaret Mead: We need every...

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class...

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Tammy Faye Bakker: I always say...

Tammy Faye Bakker: I always say...

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

Source: In And I Quote, by...

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St Teresa of Avila: I only wish...

St Teresa of Avila: I only wish...

I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying...

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M F K Fisher: When I write...

M F K Fisher: When I write...

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it . . . and...

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Lillian Carter: If I had...

Lillian Carter: If I had...

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as...

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: People are like...

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: People are like...

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in,...

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Sarah Louise Delany: I never let...

Sarah Louise Delany: I never let...

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

Source: Having...

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Johnnetta Betsch Cole: [W]hen we were...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: [W]hen we were...

[W]hen we were little girls sitting between those knees that served like locks, when they came with that brush or...

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