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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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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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Sally Kempton: All children are...

Sally Kempton: All children are...

All children are potential victims, dependent upon the world's good will.

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Alice Roosevelt Longworth: I have a...

Alice Roosevelt Longworth: I have a...

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it...

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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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Sheila Ballantyne: If you have...

Sheila Ballantyne: If you have...

If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.

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Maya Angelou: I love to...

Maya Angelou: I love to...

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick...

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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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Susan Sontag: All. . ....

Susan Sontag: All. . ....

All. . . forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually...

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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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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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Maya Ying Lin: Architecture is like...

Maya Ying Lin: Architecture is like...

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: I had to...

Georgia O'Keeffe: I had to...

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

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Mary Kay Ash: Criticize the act,...

Mary Kay Ash: Criticize the act,...

Criticize the act, not the person.

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-- Mary Kay Ash, (May 12 1915-2001),...

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Anita Roddick: If you think...

Anita Roddick: If you think...

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

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Est?e Lauder: Touch a face....

Est?e Lauder: Touch a face....

Touch a face. Touch a hand. Say, This is for you, this is what I want you, to wear.

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Polly Adler: It's not the...

Polly Adler: It's not the...

It's not the college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to...

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Faith Popcorn: The trouble with...

Faith Popcorn: The trouble with...

The trouble with corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), travel the...

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Susan RoAne: Respect for people...

Susan RoAne: Respect for people...

Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking in the nineties.

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Martha Graham: The past is...

Martha Graham: The past is...

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or...

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