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Naomi Weisstein: Evidence and reason:...

Naomi Weisstein: Evidence and reason:...

Evidence and reason: my heroes and my guides.

Source: Women Look at Biology Looking...

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Richard Francis Burton: As threshing separates...

Richard Francis Burton: As threshing separates...

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

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Gail Pursell Elliott: As a society,...

Gail Pursell Elliott: As a society,...

As a society, we have come to a point where people too often treat one another as objects and opportunities, rather...

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Charles Evans Hughes: I believe in...

Charles Evans Hughes: I believe in...

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and...

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William C Nell: I yield to...

William C Nell: I yield to...

I yield to no one in appreciating the propriety and pertinency of every effort, on the part of Colored Americans, in...

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Henry Brooks Adams: No man means...

Henry Brooks Adams: No man means...

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is...

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Theodore H White: I, alas, must...

Theodore H White: I, alas, must...

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a...

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Carter G Woodson: Truth comes to...

Carter G Woodson: Truth comes to...

Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.

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Nathan Huggins: Death mattered not...

Nathan Huggins: Death mattered not...

Death mattered not -- It was a mere puncutation

Source: Black Odyssey, 1977
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Mary Ritter Beard: Woman's success in...

Mary Ritter Beard: Woman's success in...

Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts -- who merely hunted and...

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Byron R White: When the whistle...

Byron R White: When the whistle...

When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do it then or you...

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Louis Nizer: Yes, there's such...

Louis Nizer: Yes, there's such...

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. . . . You'll still find...

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Orison Swett Marden: Opportunities? They are...

Orison Swett Marden: Opportunities? They are...

Opportunities? They are all around us. . . There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to...

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Van Wyck Brooks: The instructed man...

Van Wyck Brooks: The instructed man...

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people...

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Ralph Ellison: It takes a...

Ralph Ellison: It takes a...

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

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Agatha Christie: Never do anything...

Agatha Christie: Never do anything...

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

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-- Agatha...

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Thomas Mann: An art whose...

Thomas Mann: An art whose...

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a...

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Thomas Mann: Order and simplification...

Thomas Mann: Order and simplification...

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

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Jean Toomer: We learn the...

Jean Toomer: We learn the...

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Lewis Carroll: That's the reason...

Lewis Carroll: That's the reason...

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

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