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Michelle Obama: Failure is an...

Michelle Obama: Failure is an...

Failure is an important part of your growth and developing resilience. Don?t be afraid to...

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Georges Pompidou: The rest of...

Georges Pompidou: The rest of...

The rest of the world cannot be expected to regulate its life by a clock which is always...

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Georges Pompidou: There are three...

Georges Pompidou: There are three...

There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians.

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Patrick Henry: I like dreams...

Patrick Henry: I like dreams...

I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Source: In The...

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Edward Everett: Education is a...

Edward Everett: Education is a...

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Source: In The...

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Edmund Burke: Poetry is the...

Edmund Burke: Poetry is the...

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

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Edmund Burke: You cannot plan...

Edmund Burke: You cannot plan...

You cannot plan the future by the past.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Nancy Astor: My vigor, vitality,...

Nancy Astor: My vigor, vitality,...

My vigor, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run away from.

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Margaret Halsey: In some circumstances,...

Margaret Halsey: In some circumstances,...

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

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Stendhal: It is the...

Stendhal: It is the...

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from...

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William Makepeace Thackeray: The most engaging...

William Makepeace Thackeray: The most engaging...

The most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things...

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Edna Ferber: Only amateurs say...

Edna Ferber: Only amateurs say...

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination...

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Elie Wiesel: Once you bring...

Elie Wiesel: Once you bring...

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the...

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Vicki Baum: Fame always brings...

Vicki Baum: Fame always brings...

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

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Emily Bronte: A good heart...

Emily Bronte: A good heart...

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad. . . and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than...

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Dinah Mulock Craik: Believe only half...

Dinah Mulock Craik: Believe only half...

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Source: In Words of...

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Nadine Gordimer: Censorship is never...

Nadine Gordimer: Censorship is never...

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the...

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Rose Tremain: Kept falling in...

Rose Tremain: Kept falling in...

Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.

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Anthony Hope: Unless one is...

Anthony Hope: Unless one is...

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Source: The Dolly...

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Enid Bagnold: As for death...

Enid Bagnold: As for death...

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

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