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Simone de Beauvoir: If you haven't...

Simone de Beauvoir: If you haven't...

If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more...

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Ingrid Bengis: For me words...

Ingrid Bengis: For me words...

For me words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. Their articulation represents a complete, live...

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Erma Bombeck: One thing they...

Erma Bombeck: One thing they...

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are...

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Helen Keller: I don't want...

Helen Keller: I don't want...

I don't want peace that passeth understanding, I want understanding which bringeth peace.

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Dorothy Parker: Four be the...

Dorothy Parker: Four be the...

Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.


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Dorothy Parker: She had spent...

Dorothy Parker: She had spent...

She had spent the golden time in grudging its going.

Source: The Lovely Leave, in...

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Dorothy Parker: I know that...

Dorothy Parker: I know that...

I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield,...

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Dorothy Parker: Good work, Mary....

Dorothy Parker: Good work, Mary....

Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

Source: Telegram to a friend who...

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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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Emily Dickinson: I took one...

Emily Dickinson: I took one...

I took one Draught of Life --
I'll tell you what I paid --
Precisely an existence --
The market price, they...

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Emily Dickinson: My only sketch,...

Emily Dickinson: My only sketch,...

My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June -- and in it...

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Emily Dickinson: To see the...

Emily Dickinson: To see the...

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie --
True Poems flee --


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Emily Dickinson: Prayer is the...

Emily Dickinson: Prayer is the...

Prayer is the little implement
Through which men reach
Where presence - is denied...

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Agnes George DeMille: A good education...

Agnes George DeMille: A good education...

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

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Agnes George DeMille: The universe lies...

Agnes George DeMille: The universe lies...

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From...

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Gracie Allen: Brains, integrity, and...

Gracie Allen: Brains, integrity, and...

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your...

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Grace Metalious: Didn't you ever...

Grace Metalious: Didn't you ever...

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the...

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George Eliot: If you could...

George Eliot: If you could...

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

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George Eliot: But the mother's...

George Eliot: But the mother's...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love,...

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George Eliot: Of what use,...

George Eliot: Of what use,...

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need...

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