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Joyce Brothers: Trust your hunches...

Joyce Brothers: Trust your hunches...

Trust your hunches . . . Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do...

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Anne Rice: Very few beings...

Anne Rice: Very few beings...

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to...

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Florence Scovel Shinn: If one is...

Florence Scovel Shinn: If one is...

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to . . . face a situation fearlessly, and [if]...

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Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: Our own theological...

Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: Our own theological...

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a...

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Olympia Brown: The Old Testament...

Olympia Brown: The Old Testament...

The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as 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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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: We must prepare...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: We must prepare...

We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the...

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Anne Frank: Who would ever...

Anne Frank: Who would ever...

Who would ever think that so much can go on in the soul of a young girl?

Source:...

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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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Antoinette Brown Blackwell: Nature is just...

Antoinette Brown Blackwell: Nature is just...

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

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Angelina Grimke: We are commanded...

Angelina Grimke: We are commanded...

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we...

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Coretta Scott King: I'm fulfilled in...

Coretta Scott King: I'm fulfilled in...

I'm fulfilled in what I do. . . I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life --...

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Peace Pilgrim: This is the...

Peace Pilgrim: This is the...

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with...

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Sonia Johnson: Language, as symbol,...

Sonia Johnson: Language, as symbol,...

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: The beginning is...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: The beginning is...

The beginning is always today.

Source: From Journey in Word, ed. Cyndi Craven; an...

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Anna Jameson: Fame is that...

Anna Jameson: Fame is that...

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

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Susan Sontag: It is the...

Susan Sontag: It is the...

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: . . ....

Carolyn Heilbrun: . . ....

. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest...

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Mary Tyler Moore: Take chances, make...

Mary Tyler Moore: Take chances, make...

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to...

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Wendy Wasserstein: Because of Mozart,...

Wendy Wasserstein: Because of Mozart,...

Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.

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