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Barbara De Angelis: When you make...

Barbara De Angelis: When you make...

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you...

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Jacques Barzun: Music is intended...

Jacques Barzun: Music is intended...

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and...

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Amos Bronson Alcott: Our ideals are...

Amos Bronson Alcott: Our ideals are...

Our ideals are our better selves.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Ralph Ellison: If the word...

Ralph Ellison: If the word...

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and...

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Agatha Christie: Most successes are...

Agatha Christie: Most successes are...

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by...

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Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing...

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Edgar Watson Howe: No man would...

Edgar Watson Howe: No man would...

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

Source: In...

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Mary Ritter Beard: While it is...

Mary Ritter Beard: While it is...

While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems...

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Byron R White: Sports constantly make...

Byron R White: Sports constantly make...

Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, self-reliance and...

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Byron R White: To exclude all...

Byron R White: To exclude all...

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to...

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Orison Swett Marden: If we put...

Orison Swett Marden: If we put...

If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive...

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William Jennings Bryan: Anglo-Saxon civilization has...

William Jennings Bryan: Anglo-Saxon civilization has...

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to...

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Charles Montesquieu: There is no...

Charles Montesquieu: There is no...

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to...

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Etty Hillesum: Become simple and...

Etty Hillesum: Become simple and...

Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don't make ripples all...

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Patricia Meyer Spacks: Poring over fragments...

Patricia Meyer Spacks: Poring over fragments...

Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill...

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Margaret Walker: When I was...

Margaret Walker: When I was...

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a...

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Harold Rosenberg: One of the...

Harold Rosenberg: One of the...

One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: The quality of...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: The quality of...

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its...

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Jacques Cousteau: To yackety-yak about...

Jacques Cousteau: To yackety-yak about...

To yackety-yak about the past is for me time lost. Every morning I wake up saying, 'I'm still alive -- a miracle.'...

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Pearl Buck: I am comforted...

Pearl Buck: I am comforted...

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place...

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