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Rosalynn Carter: I had already...

Rosalynn Carter: I had already...

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I...

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Henry Lewis Stimson: Gentlemen do not...

Henry Lewis Stimson: Gentlemen do not...

Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.

Source: Reason given for closing the Dept...

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Thomas More: Pluck up thy...

Thomas More: Pluck up thy...

Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office; my neck is very short; take heed therefore thou...

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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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Rufus Choate: Happy is he...

Rufus Choate: Happy is he...

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for...

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Demosthenes: As a vessel...

Demosthenes: As a vessel...

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not, so men are proved by their speeches whether they be...

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Demosthenes: Beware lest in...

Demosthenes: Beware lest in...

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Source: In Wisdom of...

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Vaclav Havel: Hope is a...

Vaclav Havel: Hope is a...

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the...

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Bliss Carman: Set me a...

Bliss Carman: Set me a...

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and...

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Indira Gandhi: A nation' s...

Indira Gandhi: A nation' s...

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from...

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Indira Gandhi: My father was...

Indira Gandhi: My father was...

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

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Corazon Aquino: All the world...

Corazon Aquino: All the world...

All the world wondered as they witnessed . . . a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest of...

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John Randolph: Time is at...

John Randolph: Time is at...

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

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Mao Tse-Tung: To read too...

Mao Tse-Tung: To read too...

To read too many books is harmful.

Source: The New Yorker, 7 Mar 1977
-- Mao...

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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: One's reputation is...

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: One's reputation is...

One's reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it...

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Otto von Bismarck: People never lie...

Otto von Bismarck: People never lie...

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

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Winston Churchill: Men occasionally stumble...

Winston Churchill: Men occasionally stumble...

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had...

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Winston Churchill: It is a...

Winston Churchill: It is a...

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Source: Of...

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Mary Webb: It made me...

Mary Webb: It made me...

It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.

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Mary Webb: When you dwell...

Mary Webb: When you dwell...

When you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with...

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