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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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Beth Henley: And all writing...

Beth Henley: And all writing...

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it...

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Norman Thomas: Rebellion per se...

Norman Thomas: Rebellion per se...

Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low...

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Michelangelo: If people only...

Michelangelo: If people only...

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at...

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Every life is...

Every life is...

Every life is a possession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.

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Gerald Ford: In a democracy,...

Gerald Ford: In a democracy,...

In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what...

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Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too...

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Margaret Drabble: The human mind...

Margaret Drabble: The human mind...

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

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Robert Penn Warren: The urge to...

Robert Penn Warren: The urge to...

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch...

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Why doesn't the...

Why doesn't the...

Why doesn't the fellow who says, I'm no speechmaker let it go at that instead of giving a...

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Destiny has two...

Destiny has two...

Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

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Gertrude Stein: But then of...

Gertrude Stein: But then of...

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: No steam or...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: No steam or...

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is...

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Jean Racine: Oh, I have...

Jean Racine: Oh, I have...

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him. (Ah! je l'ai trop aim? pour ne le point...

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Barbara De Angelis: The more connections...

Barbara De Angelis: The more connections...

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: Watch what people...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: Watch what people...

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

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Warren Bennis: Ineffective leaders often...

Warren Bennis: Ineffective leaders often...

Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.

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Hans Selye: Every stress leaves...

Hans Selye: Every stress leaves...

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming...

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George Farquhar: Captain is a...

George Farquhar: Captain is a...

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

Source: The Beaux' Stratagem,...

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Bill Clinton: If we disagree...

Bill Clinton: If we disagree...

If we disagree and I think I'm right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she tells me, 'I told...

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