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Amelia Earhart: The effect of...

Amelia Earhart: The effect of...

The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more...

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Amy Strum Alcott: The pressure of...

Amy Strum Alcott: The pressure of...

The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.

Source:...

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Martina Navratilova: I came to...

Martina Navratilova: I came to...

I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been...

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Rachel Carson: The discipline of...

Rachel Carson: The discipline of...

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell...

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Mary Todd Lincoln: Beautiful, glorious Scotland,...

Mary Todd Lincoln: Beautiful, glorious Scotland,...

Beautiful, glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country!

Source:...

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Abigail Adams: Learning is not...

Abigail Adams: Learning is not...

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with...

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Amelia Earhart: Women must try...

Amelia Earhart: Women must try...

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to...

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Martha Wright Griffiths: This amendment [the...

Martha Wright Griffiths: This amendment [the...

This amendment [the Equal Rights Amendment], if passed, would be like a beacon which should awaken nine sleeping Rip...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: Human beings do...

Mary Catherine Bateson: Human beings do...

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Source: With a Daughter's Eye,...

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Barbara Tuchman: What his imagination...

Barbara Tuchman: What his imagination...

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection,...

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Svetlana Alliluyeva: God grants an...

Svetlana Alliluyeva: God grants an...

God grants an easy death only to the just.

Source: Twenty Letters to a Friend,...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: From the first,...

Mary McLeod Bethune: From the first,...

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

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Hannah Arendt: Total loyalty is...

Hannah Arendt: Total loyalty is...

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might...

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Sandra Day O'Connor: Slaying the dragon...

Sandra Day O'Connor: Slaying the dragon...

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

Source: In The...

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Millicent Fenwick: Never feel self-pity,...

Millicent Fenwick: Never feel self-pity,...

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage...

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Chris Evert Lloyd: You've got to...

Chris Evert Lloyd: You've got to...

You've got to take the initiative and play your game . . . confidence makes the...

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Althea Gibson: Talent wins out....

Althea Gibson: Talent wins out....

Talent wins out.

Source: In And I Quote, by Ashton Applewhite, 1992.
-- Althea...

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Marie Curie: [H]umanity also needs...

Marie Curie: [H]umanity also needs...

[H]umanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it...

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Deborah Tannen: [T]he seeds of...

Deborah Tannen: [T]he seeds of...

[T]he seeds of [the Argument Culture] can be found our classrooms, where a teacher will introduce an article or an...

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Anna Kournikova: The courts are...

Anna Kournikova: The courts are...

The courts are as a stage, people love to see attractive players.

Source:
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