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Joan L Curcio: Advances are made...

Joan L Curcio: Advances are made...

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can...

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George Eliot: The intense happiness...

George Eliot: The intense happiness...

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and...

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Margaret Walker: White folks needs...

Margaret Walker: White folks needs...

White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got to...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: You can't move...

Eleanor Roosevelt: You can't move...

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do...

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Corazon Aquino: The nation was...

Corazon Aquino: The nation was...

The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.

Source: Dedicating a marker at...

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Barbara Mikulski: The two-martinis-for-lunch bunch...

Barbara Mikulski: The two-martinis-for-lunch bunch...

The two-martinis-for-lunch bunch would love for us to fight each other over the resources they have made...

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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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Elizabeth II: Let us not...

Elizabeth II: Let us not...

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

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Jane Austen: How can you...

Jane Austen: How can you...

How can you contrive to write so even?

Source: (Miss Bingley) Pride and Prejudice,...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: Life is a...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: Life is a...

Life is a little work, a little sleep, a little love and it is all over.

Source: In...

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Marguerite Duras: I see journalists...

Marguerite Duras: I see journalists...

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is...

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Georgie Anne Geyer: The more revolutions...

Georgie Anne Geyer: The more revolutions...

The more revolutions occur, the less things change.

Source: The New Latins,...

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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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Jane Addams: The new growth...

Jane Addams: The new growth...

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If one talks...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If one talks...

If one talks to more than four people it is an audience, and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an...

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Anya Seton: The soul ....

Anya Seton: The soul ....

The soul . . . may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Source: The...

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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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Rebecca West: If the whole...

Rebecca West: If the whole...

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at...

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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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