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Marie Curie: I was taught...

Marie Curie: I was taught...

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

Source: In Words...

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Eileen Caddy: Set your sights...

Eileen Caddy: Set your sights...

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right...

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Diane Trilling: Pleasure was not...

Diane Trilling: Pleasure was not...

Pleasure was not the principle of our home. I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before...

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Phyllis McGinley: The trouble with...

Phyllis McGinley: The trouble with...

The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an...

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Be humble, if...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Be humble, if...

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast...

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Katherine Mansfield: The pleasure of...

Katherine Mansfield: The pleasure of...

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same...

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Katherine Mansfield: Risk! Risk anything!...

Katherine Mansfield: Risk! Risk anything!...

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you....

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Colette: You do not...

Colette: You do not...

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Source: My Apprenticeships,...

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Joan L Curcio: We teach what...

Joan L Curcio: We teach what...

We teach what we learn, and the cycle goes on.

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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bell hooks: Being oppressed means...

bell hooks: Being oppressed means...

Being oppressed means the absence of choices.

Source: Feminist Theory, ch.1,...

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Anna Julia Cooper: One needs occasionally...

Anna Julia Cooper: One needs occasionally...

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of...

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St Teresa of Avila: Patient endurance<br>Attaineth to...

St Teresa of Avila: Patient endurance
Attaineth to...

Patient endurance
Attaineth to all things;
Who God possesseth
In nothing is wanting;
Alone God...

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Jane Austen: All the privilege...

Jane Austen: All the privilege...

All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is...

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Margot Asquith: Symbols are the...

Margot Asquith: Symbols are the...

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Source: More or Less about Myself,...

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Margot Asquith: Dear boy, it...

Margot Asquith: Dear boy, it...

Dear boy, it isn't that your manners are bad -- it's simply that you have no manners at...

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Barbara Bush: Some people give...

Barbara Bush: Some people give...

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: It takes as...

Eleanor Roosevelt: It takes as...

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Elizabeth I: Brass shines as...

Elizabeth I: Brass shines as...

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

Source: Letter,...

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Eva Peron: Charity separates the...

Eva Peron: Charity separates the...

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the...

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Dianne Feinstein: Ninety percent of...

Dianne Feinstein: Ninety percent of...

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

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