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Jesse Jackson: If you run,...

Jesse Jackson: If you run,...

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

Source: In...

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Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they...

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Francis Bacon: It is a...

Francis Bacon: It is a...

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

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Charles Dickens: Minerva House was...

Charles Dickens: Minerva House was...

Minerva House was 'a finishing establishment for young ladies,' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to...

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Mario Puzo: He was. ....

Mario Puzo: He was. ....

He was. . . a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war...

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Charles Morgan: If Moses had...

Charles Morgan: If Moses had...

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written The Ten...

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Brian Moore: In fact, one...

Brian Moore: In fact, one...

In fact, one thing that I have noticed. . . is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being...

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Sloan Wilson: It's not a...

Sloan Wilson: It's not a...

It's not a question of who's going to throw the first stone; it's a question of who's going to start building with...

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Hermann Hesse: There's no reality...

Hermann Hesse: There's no reality...

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images...

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Louis Auchincloss: Perfection irritates as...

Louis Auchincloss: Perfection irritates as...

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

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Jean Paul: The timid are...

Jean Paul: The timid are...

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after...

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Jane Austen: If it was...

Jane Austen: If it was...

'If it was not for the entail I should not mind it.' `What should not you mind?' `I should not mind anything at all.'...

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James Allen: Above all be...

James Allen: Above all be...

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to...

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Francoise Sagan: To jealousy, nothing...

Francoise Sagan: To jealousy, nothing...

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Source: La Chamade,...

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Louisa May Alcott: Father asked us...

Louisa May Alcott: Father asked us...

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never...

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George Eliot: Breed is stronger...

George Eliot: Breed is stronger...

Breed is stronger than pasture.

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-- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880),...

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Italo Calvino: Myth is the...

Italo Calvino: Myth is the...

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet...

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June Singer: The first half...

June Singer: The first half...

The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with...

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Ashley Montagu: One goes through...

Ashley Montagu: One goes through...

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a...

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Warren Bennis: Make sure you...

Warren Bennis: Make sure you...

Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.

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