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Maria Montessori: Establishing lasting peace...

Maria Montessori: Establishing lasting peace...

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of...

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Hannah Arendt: Economic growth may...

Hannah Arendt: Economic growth may...

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into...

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Invention, it must...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Invention, it must...

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of...

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Naomi Weisstein: When we hear...

Naomi Weisstein: When we hear...

When we hear jokes against women, and we are asked why we don't laugh at them, the answer is easy, simple, and short....

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Jane Harrison: To be womanly...

Jane Harrison: To be womanly...

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to...

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Freda Adler: The Rubicons which...

Freda Adler: The Rubicons which...

The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in the...

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Frances Perkins: But with the...

Frances Perkins: But with the...

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan...

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Maria Montessori: Never help a...

Maria Montessori: Never help a...

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Source: In The...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: I see the...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: I see the...

I see the mind of a 5-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and...

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Barbara Tuchman: Books are the...

Barbara Tuchman: Books are the...

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: Character building begins...

Eleanor Roosevelt: Character building begins...

Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.

Source: In...

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Golda Meir: To be or...

Golda Meir: To be or...

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

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Princess Anne: You, are a...

Princess Anne: You, are a...

You, are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.

Source: To a...

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Carter Heyward: For god is...

Carter Heyward: For god is...

For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose...

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Dorothy L Sayers: While time lasts...

Dorothy L Sayers: While time lasts...

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made...

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Louisa May Alcott: People want to...

Louisa May Alcott: People want to...

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

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Helen Keller: Your success and...

Helen Keller: Your success and...

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host...

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Diane Sawyer: It's in the...

Diane Sawyer: It's in the...

It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe....

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Anne Frank: Everyone has inside...

Anne Frank: Everyone has inside...

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much...

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Grace Speare: Think and feel...

Grace Speare: Think and feel...

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation,...

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