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Lily Tomlin: Instead of working...

Lily Tomlin: Instead of working...

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest -- then we...

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Lily Tomlin: Why is it...

Lily Tomlin: Why is it...

Why is it when we talk to God, we're said to be praying -- but when God talks to us, we're...

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Shirley MacLaine: Someday perhaps change...

Shirley MacLaine: Someday perhaps change...

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change...

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Rosalind Russell: Success is a...

Rosalind Russell: Success is a...

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Source: Life Is a...

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Maya Ying Lin: You really can't...

Maya Ying Lin: You really can't...

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist, I make...

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Mary Kay Ash: A good goal...

Mary Kay Ash: A good goal...

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise -- it makes you stretch.

Source: In Words...

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Sarah Knowles Bolton: Heroic deeds, to...

Sarah Knowles Bolton: Heroic deeds, to...

Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower
Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power.


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Rita Dove: Can it be...

Rita Dove: Can it be...

Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to...

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Letitia Landon: No thoroughly occupied...

Letitia Landon: No thoroughly occupied...

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Ntozake Shange: Where there is...

Ntozake Shange: Where there is...

Where there is woman there is magic.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Anna Letitia Barbauld: While Genius was...

Anna Letitia Barbauld: While Genius was...

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: The man who...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: The man who...

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and...

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Meg Greenfield: The greatest harm...

Meg Greenfield: The greatest harm...

The greatest harm of all the gore on the tube is that it may dull our response to the real...

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Erma Bombeck: It takes a...

Erma Bombeck: It takes a...

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Source: In The...

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Mary Pettibone Poole: The next best...

Mary Pettibone Poole: The next best...

The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.

Source:...

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Anita Brookner: There are moments...

Anita Brookner: There are moments...

There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on...

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Barbara Sher: And our dreams...

Barbara Sher: And our dreams...

And our dreams are who we are.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Susan Sontag: Ambition if it...

Susan Sontag: Ambition if it...

Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Source: The...

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Amelia Barr: Whatever the scientists...

Amelia Barr: Whatever the scientists...

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the...

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Marian Wright Edelman: Education is a...

Marian Wright Edelman: Education is a...

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Source: c. 1988.
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