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Mary Catherine Bateson: Goals too clearly...

Mary Catherine Bateson: Goals too clearly...

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

Source: Composing a Life,...

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Marie Anne du Deffand: I do not...

Marie Anne du Deffand: I do not...

I do not know why Diogenes * went looking for a man: nothing could happen to him worse than finding...

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Chris Evert Lloyd: If you can...

Chris Evert Lloyd: If you can...

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it...

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Martina Navratilova: The moment of...

Martina Navratilova: The moment of...

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Source:...

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Aimee Semple Mcpherson: With God, I...

Aimee Semple Mcpherson: With God, I...

With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we're...

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Margaret Thatcher: It's passionately interesting...

Margaret Thatcher: It's passionately interesting...

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just...

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Elizabeth Montagu: I endeavor to...

Elizabeth Montagu: I endeavor to...

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content when I cannot be mended and patient...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The past which...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The past which...

The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past...

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Suzanne K Langer: A philosophy is...

Suzanne K Langer: A philosophy is...

A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problems than by its solution of...

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Clara Barton: . . ....

Clara Barton: . . ....

. . . the surest test of discipline is its absence.

Source: The Story
-- Clara...

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Mary Todd Lincoln: Beautiful, glorious Scotland,...

Mary Todd Lincoln: Beautiful, glorious Scotland,...

Beautiful, glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country!

Source:...

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Chris Evert Lloyd: You've got to...

Chris Evert Lloyd: You've got to...

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the...

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Ellen Swallow Richards: The Faculty [of...

Ellen Swallow Richards: The Faculty [of...

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as...

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Deborah Tannen: The biggest mistake...

Deborah Tannen: The biggest mistake...

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation -- or a...

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Charleszetta Waddles: You can have...

Charleszetta Waddles: You can have...

You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright...

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Mary Harris Mother Jones: Injustice boils in...

Mary Harris Mother Jones: Injustice boils in...

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its caldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of...

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Anne Sullivan: Keep on beginning...

Anne Sullivan: Keep on beginning...

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have...

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Svetlana Alliluyeva: Moscow, breathing fire...

Svetlana Alliluyeva: Moscow, breathing fire...

Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its...

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Clare Boothe Luce: If God had...

Clare Boothe Luce: If God had...

If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?

Source:...

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Amelia Earhart: Obviously I faced...

Amelia Earhart: Obviously I faced...

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really...

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