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Thomas Fuller: All things are...

Thomas Fuller: All things are...

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Harry A Blackmun: We're all eccentrics....

Harry A Blackmun: We're all eccentrics....

We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas.

Source: In Time, 6 Feb 1984.
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William O Douglas: It seemed to...

William O Douglas: It seemed to...

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.

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Louis Brandeis: Our government ....

Louis Brandeis: Our government ....

Our government . . . teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds...

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Louis Brandeis: Neutrality is at...

Louis Brandeis: Neutrality is at...

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

Source: The Words of Justice...

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Amos Bronson Alcott: First find the...

Amos Bronson Alcott: First find the...

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Source: In...

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Amos Bronson Alcott: We climb to...

Amos Bronson Alcott: We climb to...

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were...

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George Sand: The trade of...

George Sand: The trade of...

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

Source: Letter,...

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Ralph Ellison: The act of...

Ralph Ellison: The act of...

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers...

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Anthony Trollope: Success is the...

Anthony Trollope: Success is the...

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes...

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Anatole France: If fifty million...

Anatole France: If fifty million...

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Time engraves our...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Time engraves our...

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Source: Quoted in:...

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Mary Ritter Beard: [T]hose who sit...

Mary Ritter Beard: [T]hose who sit...

[T]hose who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world...

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr: Many ideas grow...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr: Many ideas grow...

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung...

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Orison Swett Marden: Begin where you...

Orison Swett Marden: Begin where you...

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be...

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Van Wyck Brooks: It is not...

Van Wyck Brooks: It is not...

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their...

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Patricia Meyer Spacks: Theories by women...

Patricia Meyer Spacks: Theories by women...

Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are...

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Paule Marshall: My very first...

Paule Marshall: My very first...

My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her...

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Colin Powell: There are no...

Colin Powell: There are no...

There are no secrets to success: Don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work,...

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Chiang Kai-Shek: We live in...

Chiang Kai-Shek: We live in...

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

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