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Lady Bird Johnson: Children are likely...

Lady Bird Johnson: Children are likely...

Children are likely to live up to what you believe in them.

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: It looks like...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: It looks like...

It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.

Source: Contemplating her...

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Frances Watkins Harper: The true aim...

Frances Watkins Harper: The true aim...

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul,...

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Eliza Cook: Why should we...

Eliza Cook: Why should we...

Why should we strive, with cynic frown,
To knock their fairy castles down?


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Emily Dickinson: Hope is the...

Emily Dickinson: Hope is the...

Hope is the thing with feathers --
That perches in the soul --
And sings the tunes without the words --
And...

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Mary Kay Ash: Aerodynamically the bumble...

Mary Kay Ash: Aerodynamically the bumble...

Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it, so it goes on flying...

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Leontyne Price: The ultimate of...

Leontyne Price: The ultimate of...

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to...

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Nelly Sachs: O the chimneys...

Nelly Sachs: O the chimneys...

O the chimneys
On the ingeniously devised habitations of death
When Israel's body drifted as smoke
Through...

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Kathleen Turner: There's something so...

Kathleen Turner: There's something so...

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life...

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Tallulah Bankhead: I have been...

Tallulah Bankhead: I have been...

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free...

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Tallulah Bankhead: The only thing...

Tallulah Bankhead: The only thing...

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes,...

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Greta Garbo: Is there anything...

Greta Garbo: Is there anything...

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within...

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Rosalind Russell: When something [an...

Rosalind Russell: When something [an...

When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat...

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Anita Roddick: There is no...

Anita Roddick: There is no...

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do...

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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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Mary Todd Lincoln: I am convinced,...

Mary Todd Lincoln: I am convinced,...

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed [as] when we are...

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Shelagh Delaney: Why don't you...

Shelagh Delaney: Why don't you...

Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own.

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Sarah Bernhardt: We must live...

Sarah Bernhardt: We must live...

We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: At painful times,...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: At painful times,...

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The beautiful seems...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The beautiful seems...

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

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