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Mae West: It isn't what...

Mae West: It isn't what...

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it. And how I look when I do it and say...

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Dorothy L Sayers: She always says,...

Dorothy L Sayers: She always says,...

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run...

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Katherine Mansfield: The mind I...

Katherine Mansfield: The mind I...

The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown...

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Maxine Hong Kingston: The difference between...

Maxine Hong Kingston: The difference between...

The difference between mad people and sane people . . . is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad...

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Zelda Fitzgerald: Why do we...

Zelda Fitzgerald: Why do we...

Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our...

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M F K Fisher: For anyone addicted...

M F K Fisher: For anyone addicted...

For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books . . . finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar...

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Doroth?e DeLuzy: We believe at...

Doroth?e DeLuzy: We believe at...

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?

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Diane Ravitch: The ladder was...

Diane Ravitch: The ladder was...

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were...

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Freda Adler: There is another...

Freda Adler: There is another...

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke...

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Maria Montessori: If help and...

Maria Montessori: If help and...

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: It is not...

Eleanor Roosevelt: It is not...

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

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Christina of Sweden: There is a...

Christina of Sweden: There is a...

There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate...

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Ruth Benedict: Our faith in...

Ruth Benedict: Our faith in...

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Source: An...

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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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Ethel Percy Andrus: The human contribution...

Ethel Percy Andrus: The human contribution...

The human contribution is the essential ingredient.

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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Beryl Markham: In Africa people...

Beryl Markham: In Africa people...

In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one...

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Kate Chopin: But the beginning...

Kate Chopin: But the beginning...

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly...

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Erma Bombeck: Dreams have only...

Erma Bombeck: Dreams have only...

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

Source: In...

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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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Fanny Burney: But if the...

Fanny Burney: But if the...

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment. . ....

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