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Billie Jean King: The trouble with...

Billie Jean King: The trouble with...

The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that...

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Florence Griffith Joyner: When anyone tells...

Florence Griffith Joyner: When anyone tells...

When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not listening any more.

Source:...

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Here on the...

Here on the...

Here on the pulse of this new day,
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes,...

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Stephen Leacock: The Lord said...

Stephen Leacock: The Lord said...

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.

Source: In The...

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Mary Lyon: When you choose...

Mary Lyon: When you choose...

When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.

Source:...

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Mark Hopkins: Christianity is the...

Mark Hopkins: Christianity is the...

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

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Diane Ravitch: The greatest obstacle...

Diane Ravitch: The greatest obstacle...

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

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Nannie Burroughs: To struggle and...

Nannie Burroughs: To struggle and...

To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to...

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Benjamin E Mays: We, today, stand...

Benjamin E Mays: We, today, stand...

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch...

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Miguel de Unamuno: Science is a...

Miguel de Unamuno: Science is a...

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Source: The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913.
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Mary Catherine Bateson: ...a disgruntled reflection...

Mary Catherine Bateson: ...a disgruntled reflection...

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to...

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Nancy Astor: A fool without...

Nancy Astor: A fool without...

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.

Source: My Two...

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Henry David Thoreau: How rarely I...

Henry David Thoreau: How rarely I...

How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden;...

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Peter De Vries: I was thinking...

Peter De Vries: I was thinking...

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer...

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Mark Twain: Why is it...

Mark Twain: Why is it...

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person...

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Lisa Alther: I happen to...

Lisa Alther: I happen to...

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting...

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Louis Auchincloss: Only little boys...

Louis Auchincloss: Only little boys...

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Mary McCarthy: It has to...

Mary McCarthy: It has to...

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of...

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Charles Dickens: The whole difference...

Charles Dickens: The whole difference...

The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is...

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Joseph Heller: Orr would be...

Joseph Heller: Orr would be...

Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them...

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