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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Be humble, if...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Be humble, if...

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast...

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: This idea of...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: This idea of...

This idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another --...

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Jeanne-Marie Roland: The more I...

Jeanne-Marie Roland: The more I...

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.

Source: Attributed.
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Mary Church Terrell: [T]he chasm between...

Mary Church Terrell: [T]he chasm between...

[T]he chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and...

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Dolores Huerta: Giving kids clothes...

Dolores Huerta: Giving kids clothes...

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides...

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Mary Harris Mother Jones: I am not...

Mary Harris Mother Jones: I am not...

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Man forgives women...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Man forgives women...

Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.

Source: Naked Truth and...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: . . ....

Carolyn Heilbrun: . . ....

. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest...

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Dorothy Parker: If, with the...

Dorothy Parker: If, with the...

If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that...

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Pamela Hansford Johnson: I have always...

Pamela Hansford Johnson: I have always...

I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found...

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Anne Frank: I don't believe...

Anne Frank: I don't believe...

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little...

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Anne Frank: The best remedy...

Anne Frank: The best remedy...

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone...

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Martha Gellhorn: Citizenship is a...

Martha Gellhorn: Citizenship is a...

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by...

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Maya Angelou: The horizon leans...

Maya Angelou: The horizon leans...

The horizon leans forward,
Offering you space to place new steps of change.


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Mary Pettibone Poole: He who laughs,...

Mary Pettibone Poole: He who laughs,...

He who laughs, lasts.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, ed. Robert...

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Kate Chopin: The past was...

Kate Chopin: The past was...

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never...

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Susan Sontag: All. . ....

Susan Sontag: All. . ....

All. . . forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually...

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Anya Seton: There are many...

Anya Seton: There are many...

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

Source:...

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Germaine Greer: Energy is the...

Germaine Greer: Energy is the...

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a...

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Marian Wright Edelman: No one, Eleanor...

Marian Wright Edelman: No one, Eleanor...

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give...

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