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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The best protection...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The best protection...

The best protection any woman can have . . . is courage.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Niccolo Machiavelli: Whosoever desires constant...

Niccolo Machiavelli: Whosoever desires constant...

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Source:...

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Jesus Christ: No one lights...

Jesus Christ: No one lights...

No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand,...

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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: [Americans] are the...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: [Americans] are the...

[Americans] are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

Source: On Americans, NBC TV, 8...

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One should never...

One should never...

One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose...

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Pleasure only starts...

Pleasure only starts...

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with...

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Life has always...

Life has always...

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in...

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Anyone who has...

Anyone who has...

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

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. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.

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If an animal...

If an animal...

If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it...

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It is better...

It is better...

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

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The confession of...

The confession of...

The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savours less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. ...

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The love of...

The love of...

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest...

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The perfect joys...

The perfect joys...

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

Source: In...

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When we do...

When we do...

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of...

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For those who...

For those who...

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as...

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Guns have metamorphosed...

Guns have metamorphosed...

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what...

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In most modern...

In most modern...

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art...

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We fail far...

We fail far...

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Source: In The World's Best...

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It is sad...

It is sad...

It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any...

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