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Sonia Johnson: How desperately we...

Sonia Johnson: How desperately we...

How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to...

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Clare Boothe Luce: I don't have...

Clare Boothe Luce: I don't have...

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define...

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Dorothy Day: We have all...

Dorothy Day: We have all...

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with...

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Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they...

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Jeanne-Marie Roland: People who know...

Jeanne-Marie Roland: People who know...

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: It is justice,...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: It is justice,...

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Chris Evert Lloyd: I always looked...

Chris Evert Lloyd: I always looked...

I always looked ahead.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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Florence Griffith Joyner: When anyone tells...

Florence Griffith Joyner: When anyone tells...

When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not listening any more.

Source:...

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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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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: The more thou...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: The more thou...

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire --...

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M F K Fisher: Wine and cheese...

M F K Fisher: Wine and cheese...

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures ....

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Joan L Curcio: Violence in the...

Joan L Curcio: Violence in the...

Violence in the schools: How to proactively prevent and defuse it.

Source: Book...

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Meridel Le Sueur: Each generation must...

Meridel Le Sueur: Each generation must...

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

Source:...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: Life was meant...

Eleanor Roosevelt: Life was meant...

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on...

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: On the road...

Eleanor Holmes Norton: On the road...

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in foregoing its...

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Abigail Adams: A little of...

Abigail Adams: A little of...

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the...

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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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Margot Asquith: There are big...

Margot Asquith: There are big...

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult...

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Mary Martha Sherwood: . . ....

Mary Martha Sherwood: . . ....

. . . it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. . .

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Vicki Baum: A woman who...

Vicki Baum: A woman who...

A woman who is loved always has success.

Source: Grand Hotel, 1929.
-- Vicki...

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