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Howard Thurman: Commitment means that...

Howard Thurman: Commitment means that...

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: When love turns...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: When love turns...

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: The truth is...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: The truth is...

The truth is that I am enslaved . . . in one vast love affair with 70 children.

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: When I teach...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: When I teach...

When I teach people, I marry them.

Source: Teacher, 1963.
-- Sylvia...

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Thomas Carlyle: A man lives...

Thomas Carlyle: A man lives...

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

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Thomas Carlyle: Rest is for...

Thomas Carlyle: Rest is for...

Rest is for the dead.

Source: 'Journal', June 22, 1830
-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4...

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Henry David Thoreau: We seem but...

Henry David Thoreau: We seem but...

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the...

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Ann Plato: To remove ignorance...

Ann Plato: To remove ignorance...

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

Source: In The Black...

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Anna Julia Cooper: I constantly felt...

Anna Julia Cooper: I constantly felt...

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning...

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Konrad Adenauer: A thick skin...

Konrad Adenauer: A thick skin...

A thick skin is a gift from God.

Source: In A Kick in the Seat of the Pants, by...

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Charles Sumner: The true grandeur...

Charles Sumner: The true grandeur...

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened, and decorated by the intellect of...

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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: I am more...

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: I am more...

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a...

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Rollo May: [I]f you do...

Rollo May: [I]f you do...

[I]f you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed...

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Claude Levi-Strauss: If the composer...

Claude Levi-Strauss: If the composer...

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been...

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Claude Levi-Strauss: I therefore claim...

Claude Levi-Strauss: I therefore claim...

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware...

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Harvey Cushing: In these days...

Harvey Cushing: In these days...

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless...

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Carlos Castaneda: Conclusions arrived at...

Carlos Castaneda: Conclusions arrived at...

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our...

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M F K Fisher: . . ....

M F K Fisher: . . ....

. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or...

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M F K Fisher: Probably one of...

M F K Fisher: Probably one of...

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.

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Elizabeth Kenny: As a girl...

Elizabeth Kenny: As a girl...

As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my...

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