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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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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Love is the...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Love is the...

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an...

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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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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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Joanna Field: I began to...

Joanna Field: I began to...

I began to suggest that thought, which I had always before Iooked on as a cart-horse to be driven, whipped and...

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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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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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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: As the blackness...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: As the blackness...

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so...

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Barbara Tuchman: Honor wears different...

Barbara Tuchman: Honor wears different...

Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

Source: The Guns of August,...

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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.

Source:...

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Ann Richards: [Our understanding is]...

Ann Richards: [Our understanding is]...

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

Source: Female vs....

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Queen Victoria: I don't dislike...

Queen Victoria: I don't dislike...

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

Source:...

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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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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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St Teresa of Avila: Patient endurance<br>Attaineth to...

St Teresa of Avila: Patient endurance
Attaineth to...

Patient endurance
Attaineth to all things;
Who God possesseth
In nothing is wanting;
Alone God...

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Dorothy Height: We have to...

Dorothy Height: We have to...

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. ...

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Mary Astell: If all men...

Mary Astell: If all men...

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

Source: In...

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