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Catherine the Great: I praise loudly,...

Catherine the Great: I praise loudly,...

I praise loudly, I blame softly

Source: Letter, 23 Aug 1794.
-- Catherine the...

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Barbara Bush: Bias has to...

Barbara Bush: Bias has to...

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are...

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Barbara Bush: The winner of...

Barbara Bush: The winner of...

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal...

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Abigail Adams: [A]rbitrary power is...

Abigail Adams: [A]rbitrary power is...

[A]rbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken . ....

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Imelda Marcos: I did not...

Imelda Marcos: I did not...

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

Source:...

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Betty Ford: My makeup wasn't...

Betty Ford: My makeup wasn't...

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I...

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Shirley Hufstedler: Security is not...

Shirley Hufstedler: Security is not...

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.

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Charles James Fox: He that is...

Charles James Fox: He that is...

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own...

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Barbara Jordan: Do not call...

Barbara Jordan: Do not call...

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Source: Barbara...

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Michelle Obama: It was one...

Michelle Obama: It was one...

It was one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the...

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Ulysses S Grant: I know no...

Ulysses S Grant: I know no...

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent...

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Thomas Jefferson: Great innovations should...

Thomas Jefferson: Great innovations should...

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

Source: Letter, 2 May...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Brevity is the...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Brevity is the...

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

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Benjamin Harrison: The bud of...

Benjamin Harrison: The bud of...

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

Source: Speech, 18 Sep 1888.
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Thomas B Macaulay: Generalization is necessary...

Thomas B Macaulay: Generalization is necessary...

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge, but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the...

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Thomas B Macaulay: This is the...

Thomas B Macaulay: This is the...

This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly...

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William Penn: Much reading is...

William Penn: Much reading is...

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many...

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Booker T Washington: Mere connection with...

Booker T Washington: Mere connection with...

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the...

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Booker T Washington: The world cares...

Booker T Washington: The world cares...

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that...

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Kelly Miller: Exaggerated self-importance is...

Kelly Miller: Exaggerated self-importance is...

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

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