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Grandma Moses: A primitive artist...

Grandma Moses: A primitive artist...

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Source: In Webster's NewWorld...

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Debbi Fields: You do not...

Debbi Fields: You do not...

You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.

Source: In Words of...

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Mary Kay Ash: If you think...

Mary Kay Ash: If you think...

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

Source: In...

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Mary Kay Ash: Most people live...

Mary Kay Ash: Most people live...

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

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Est?e Lauder: If you don't...

Est?e Lauder: If you don't...

If you don't sell, it's not the product that's wrong, it's you.

Source: To...

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Paula Nelson: Gold-hoarding goes against...

Paula Nelson: Gold-hoarding goes against...

Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's...

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Sylvia Porter: Beware of the...

Sylvia Porter: Beware of the...

Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden...

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Katharine Graham: If one is...

Katharine Graham: If one is...

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

Source: In The...

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Isadora Duncan: Virtuous people are...

Isadora Duncan: Virtuous people are...

Virtuous people are simply those who have. . . not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state,...

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Stevie Smith: Nobody heard him,...

Stevie Smith: Nobody heard him,...

Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not...

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Ruth Draper: Try to look...

Ruth Draper: Try to look...

Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child.

Source: In Discerning God's...

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Maria Schell: Peace is when...

Maria Schell: Peace is when...

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Source: In Time 3 Mar...

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Donna Reed: Bread that this...

Donna Reed: Bread that this...

Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor.

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Diane Sawyer: People tend to...

Diane Sawyer: People tend to...

People tend to vote the present tense -- not the subjective.

Source: On CBS-TV, 8...

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Georgie Anne Geyer: Not only does...

Georgie Anne Geyer: Not only does...

Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely...

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Gretel Ehrlich: Am I like...

Gretel Ehrlich: Am I like...

Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so...

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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 Church Terrell: We are the...

Mary Church Terrell: We are the...

We are the only human beings in the world with . . . 57 varieties of complexions who are classed together as a single...

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Jane Addams: You do not...

Jane Addams: You do not...

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with...

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Sally Kempton: I became a...

Sally Kempton: I became a...

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.

Source: Cutting...

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