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Florence Griffith Joyner: A muscle is...

Florence Griffith Joyner: A muscle is...

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it...

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Amelia Earhart: There are two...

Amelia Earhart: There are two...

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Source: 20...

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Rachel Carson: Under the philosophy...

Rachel Carson: Under the philosophy...

Under the philosophy that now seems to guide our destinies, nothing must get in the way of the man with the spray...

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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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Adelaide A Proctor: I know too...

Adelaide A Proctor: I know too...

I know too well the poison and the sting
Of things too sweet.


Source: Per Pacem...

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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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Katharine Graham: To love what...

Katharine Graham: To love what...

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

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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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Wilma Pearl Mankiller: She likened her...

Wilma Pearl Mankiller: She likened her...

She likened her job to running a small country, a medium corporation, and being a social...

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Hazel Scott: I've always known...

Hazel Scott: I've always known...

I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not...

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Ingrid Bergman: Old age is...

Ingrid Bergman: Old age is...

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless...

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Didi Conn: It doesn't matter...

Didi Conn: It doesn't matter...

It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: There are. ....

Natalie Clifford Barney: There are. ....

There are. . . intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: I think, at...

Eleanor Roosevelt: I think, at...

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift...

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Shirley Hufstedler: Security is not...

Shirley Hufstedler: Security is not...

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.

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Lillian Carter: Sometimes when I...

Lillian Carter: Sometimes when I...

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a...

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Doroth?e DeLuzy: Why are we...

Doroth?e DeLuzy: Why are we...

Why are we so blind? That which we improve, we have; that which we hoard, is not for...

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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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Barbara De Angelis: No one is...

Barbara De Angelis: No one is...

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Novels are longer...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Novels are longer...

Novels are longer than life.

Source: In Adam, no. 299, On Writing and Writers,...

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