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Sarah Knowles Bolton: The victory of...

Sarah Knowles Bolton: The victory of...

The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work.

Source: In...

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Anne Bradstreet: A prosperous state...

Anne Bradstreet: A prosperous state...

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

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Mary Astor: The man who...

Mary Astor: The man who...

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

Source: From...

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Sydney Biddle Barrows: If you want...

Sydney Biddle Barrows: If you want...

If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am...

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Nadia Boulanger: Everything we know...

Nadia Boulanger: Everything we know...

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves,...

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Nellie Melba: My voice has...

Nellie Melba: My voice has...

My voice has been raised not only in song, but to make the big world outside through me, understand something of the...

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Nellie Melba: Music is not...

Nellie Melba: Music is not...

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the...

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Marilyn Horne: Ninety percent of...

Marilyn Horne: Ninety percent of...

Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.

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Mae West: Personality is the...

Mae West: Personality is the...

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big...

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Anne Hutchinson: She was a...

Anne Hutchinson: She was a...

She was a woman of haughty and fierce carriage, a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than...

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Peace Pilgrim: World peace will...

Peace Pilgrim: World peace will...

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

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Dorothy Parker: Every love is...

Dorothy Parker: Every love is...

Every love is the love before
In a duller dress.


Source: Death and Taxes.
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Georgie Anne Geyer: Follow what you...

Georgie Anne Geyer: Follow what you...

Follow what you love! . . . Don't deign to ask what they are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow...

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: My philosophy? Practice,...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: My philosophy? Practice,...

My philosophy? Practice, practice, practice and win.

Source: In The Golfer's Book...

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Rachel Carson: Beginnings are apt...

Rachel Carson: Beginnings are apt...

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the...

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Maria Montessori: We teachers can...

Maria Montessori: We teachers can...

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

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Marjorie Rosen: Which is strongest...

Marjorie Rosen: Which is strongest...

Which is strongest the reality out of which the illusion is created, the celluloid illusion itself, or the need for...

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Mary Ritter Beard: It is grievous...

Mary Ritter Beard: It is grievous...

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be...

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Elizabeth Montagu: Minds ripen at...

Elizabeth Montagu: Minds ripen at...

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Source: Letter to Mrs. William Robinson, her...

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Elizabeth Gould Davis: The fact is...

Elizabeth Gould Davis: The fact is...

The fact is that men need women more than women need men; and so, aware of this fact, man has sought to keep woman...

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