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Peggy Noonan: Great speeches have...

Peggy Noonan: Great speeches have...

Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together...

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Miriam Beard: Leisure for reverie,...

Miriam Beard: Leisure for reverie,...

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

Source: Realism in...

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Be humble, if...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Be humble, if...

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast...

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: We live in...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: We live in...

We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us...

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Martha Gellhorn: Citizenship is a...

Martha Gellhorn: Citizenship is a...

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: Fear is not...

Mary Catherine Bateson: Fear is not...

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

Source: A...

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Joan L Curcio: We teach what...

Joan L Curcio: We teach what...

We teach what we learn, and the cycle goes on.

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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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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Abigail Adams: Great necessities call...

Abigail Adams: Great necessities call...

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Patricia Schroeder: I have a...

Patricia Schroeder: I have a...

I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.

Source: On being an elected official...

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Eva Peron: If I fall,...

Eva Peron: If I fall,...

If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing.

Source:...

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Nancy Astor: I used to...

Nancy Astor: I used to...

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that...

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Margaret Mead: Some veil between...

Margaret Mead: Some veil between...

Some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens...

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Toni Morrison: We die. That...

Toni Morrison: We die. That...

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our...

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Hannah Arendt: Fear is an...

Hannah Arendt: Fear is an...

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Grace Murray Hopper: If it isn't...

Grace Murray Hopper: If it isn't...

If it isn't bolted down, bring it home.

Source: In The Manager's Book of...

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Dorothy L Sayers: Very dangerous things,...

Dorothy L Sayers: Very dangerous things,...

Very dangerous things, theories.

Source: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona...

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Katherine Mansfield: Risk! Risk anything!...

Katherine Mansfield: Risk! Risk anything!...

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you....

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Colette: Sit down and...

Colette: Sit down and...

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: The advantage of...

Natalie Clifford Barney: The advantage of...

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Source: In...

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