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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Good communication is...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Good communication is...

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

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Simone de Beauvoir: A man would...

Simone de Beauvoir: A man would...

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human...

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Simone de Beauvoir: Buying is a...

Simone de Beauvoir: Buying is a...

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Liz Carpenter: A major advantage...

Liz Carpenter: A major advantage...

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

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Fran Lebowitz: The telephone is...

Fran Lebowitz: The telephone is...

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

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Fran Lebowitz: Humility is no...

Fran Lebowitz: Humility is no...

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Source: Metropolitan Life,...

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Erma Bombeck: The grass is...

Erma Bombeck: The grass is...

The grass is always greener over the septic tank.

Source: From Charades, an...

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Erma Bombeck: It goes without...

Erma Bombeck: It goes without...

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

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Maya Angelou: Listen carefully to...

Maya Angelou: Listen carefully to...

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: One sees that...

Rebecca Harding Davis: One sees that...

One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: Be just --...

Rebecca Harding Davis: Be just --...

Be just -- not like man's law, which seizes on one isolated fact, but like God's judging angel, whose clear, sad eye...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: These great turning-days...

Rebecca Harding Davis: These great turning-days...

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the...

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Helen Keller: Alone we can...

Helen Keller: Alone we can...

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Source: In Webster's...

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Helen Keller: The world is...

Helen Keller: The world is...

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of...

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Emily Dickinson: We never know...

Emily Dickinson: We never know...

We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise.
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures...

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Beah Richards: Race, what is...

Beah Richards: Race, what is...

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. . . .Blood doesn't run in races! ...

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Agnes George DeMille: The practice mirror...

Agnes George DeMille: The practice mirror...

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should...

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George Eliot: I at least...

George Eliot: I at least...

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that...

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George Eliot: You may try...

George Eliot: You may try...

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of...

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George Eliot: The sons of...

George Eliot: The sons of...

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice,...

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