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Shana Alexander: Evolution is fascinating...

Shana Alexander: Evolution is fascinating...

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single...

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Margaret Bourke-White: Only by his...

Margaret Bourke-White: Only by his...

Only by his action can a man make (himself/his life) whole . . . . You are responsible for what you have done and the...

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Isabel Burton: Without any cant,...

Isabel Burton: Without any cant,...

Without any cant, does not Providence provide wonderfully for us?

Source: Arabia...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I understand why...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I understand why...

I understand why the saints were rarely married women. It has primarily to do with distractions . . . Woman's normal...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The only real...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The only real...

The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward in dread or...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: Life has this...

Carolyn Heilbrun: Life has this...

Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to...

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Liz Carpenter: Instead of looking...

Liz Carpenter: Instead of looking...

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to...

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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Fantasies are more...

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Fantasies are more...

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed...

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Virgilia Peterson: Love by its...

Virgilia Peterson: Love by its...

Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable....

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Helen Keller: . . ....

Helen Keller: . . ....

. . . we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

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Dorothy Parker: It costs me...

Dorothy Parker: It costs me...

It costs me never a stab nor squirm
To tread by chance upon a worm.
'Aha, my little dear,' I say,
'Your clan...

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Dorothy Parker: A list of...

Dorothy Parker: A list of...

A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is...

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Fran Lebowitz: Even when freshly...

Fran Lebowitz: Even when freshly...

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be...

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Erma Bombeck: Never accept a...

Erma Bombeck: Never accept a...

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Peace Pilgrim: The simplification of...

Peace Pilgrim: The simplification of...

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and...

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Peace Pilgrim: The purpose of...

Peace Pilgrim: The purpose of...

The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have...

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Simone de Beauvoir: What is an...

Simone de Beauvoir: What is an...

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Source: La Femme rompue.
-- Simone de...

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Simone de Beauvoir: The most mediocre...

Simone de Beauvoir: The most mediocre...

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Source:...

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Carol Gilligan: . ....

Carol Gilligan: . ....

. . . while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance...

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Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: The ultimate aim...

Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: The ultimate aim...

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with...

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