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Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Reading is important -- read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Source:...

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Oprah Winfrey: For everyone of...

Oprah Winfrey: For everyone of...

For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way...

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Rosalynn Carter: I had already...

Rosalynn Carter: I had already...

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I...

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Barbara Bush: I married the...

Barbara Bush: I married the...

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw...

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Maya Angelou: If one is...

Maya Angelou: If one is...

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

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Diane Trilling: There's much to...

Diane Trilling: There's much to...

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

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Rebecca West: Before a war...

Rebecca West: Before a war...

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy. But after a war it seems more like...

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Dorothy Parker: This living, this...

Dorothy Parker: This living, this...

This living, this living, this living
Was never a project of mine.


Source:...

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Dorothy Parker: Her mind lives...

Dorothy Parker: Her mind lives...

Her mind lives tidily, apart
From cold and noise and pain,
And bolts the door against her heart,
Out wailing...

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Dorothy Parker: Every love is...

Dorothy Parker: Every love is...

Every love is the love before
In a duller dress.


Source: Death and Taxes.
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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: I regard our...

Anne Frank: I regard our...

I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the...

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Harriet Tubman: I link dar's...

Harriet Tubman: I link dar's...

I link dar's many a slaveholder'll git to Heaven. Dey don't know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey...

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Margaret Fuller: The especial genius...

Margaret Fuller: The especial genius...

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, and spiritual in...

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Barbara Bush: I'm not saying...

Barbara Bush: I'm not saying...

I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that...

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Indira Gandhi: I suppose leadership...

Indira Gandhi: I suppose leadership...

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with...

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Martha Wright Griffiths: If you are...

Martha Wright Griffiths: If you are...

If you are trying to run a whorehouse in the sky, then get a license.

Source: In...

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Edith Clara Summerskill: Today, literate people...

Edith Clara Summerskill: Today, literate people...

Today, literate people of the space age, in well-populated countries, are not prepared to accept taboos without...

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Elizabeth I: Anger makes dull...

Elizabeth I: Anger makes dull...

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Source: In Apophthegms, by...

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Nancy Astor: One reason why...

Nancy Astor: One reason why...

One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I'm having a good time.

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