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Mary Wortley Montagu: Whatever is clearly...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Whatever is clearly...

Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

Source: letter to James Steuart, July...

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Mary Martha Sherwood: . ....

Mary Martha Sherwood: . ....

. . . what is the zest of argument when the antagonist is not allowed to answer?

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St Teresa of Avila: How is it,...

St Teresa of Avila: How is it,...

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee?

Source:...

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Barbara De Angelis: What allows us,...

Barbara De Angelis: What allows us,...

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and...

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Fay Weldon: Worry less about...

Fay Weldon: Worry less about...

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about...

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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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Virginia Woolf: It is in...

Virginia Woolf: It is in...

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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Helen Keller: No pessimist ever...

Helen Keller: No pessimist ever...

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or open a new heaven to the...

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Marilyn vos Savant: Skill is successfully...

Marilyn vos Savant: Skill is successfully...

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is...

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Gail Sheehy: If we don't...

Gail Sheehy: If we don't...

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

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Jane Addams: In his own...

Jane Addams: In his own...

In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his...

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Maya Angelou: Bitterness is like...

Maya Angelou: Bitterness is like...

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all...

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Kate Chopin: I wonder if...

Kate Chopin: I wonder if...

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of...

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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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Judith Martin: When a society...

Judith Martin: When a society...

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly...

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Judith Martin: Honesty has come...

Judith Martin: Honesty has come...

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting...

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Emma Goldman: Methods and means...

Emma Goldman: Methods and means...

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

Source: My Further...

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Barbara Deming: Make it impossible...

Barbara Deming: Make it impossible...

Make it impossible for [the authority] to operate within the system as usual . . . making it impossible for him simply...

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Erma Bombeck: If you can't...

Erma Bombeck: If you can't...

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Marian Wright Edelman: Somehow we are...

Marian Wright Edelman: Somehow we are...

Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the...

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