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Francoise Sagan: There are moments...

Francoise Sagan: There are moments...

There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a...

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Pearl Buck: All things are...

Pearl Buck: All things are...

All things are possible until they are proved impossible -- and even the impossible may only be so, as of...

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Agatha Christie: Most successes are...

Agatha Christie: Most successes are...

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by...

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Madeleine L'Engle: I believe that...

Madeleine L'Engle: I believe that...

I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Even a stopped...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Even a stopped...

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of...

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Jane Austen: Where an opinion...

Jane Austen: Where an opinion...

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Source: Mary Crawford, in...

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Judith Viorst: Love is much...

Judith Viorst: Love is much...

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern...

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Judith Viorst: Strength is the...

Judith Viorst: Strength is the...

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands- and then eat just one of the...

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Muriel Spark: To me education...

Muriel Spark: To me education...

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of...

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Hannah Arendt: The sad truth...

Hannah Arendt: The sad truth...

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or...

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Anais Nin: The shell is...

Anais Nin: The shell is...

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it...

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Ariel Durant: Education is the...

Ariel Durant: Education is the...

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Source: In Peter's Quotations, by...

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Alice Duer Miller: Listening is not...

Alice Duer Miller: Listening is not...

Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human...

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Alice Dunbar-Nelson: I had not...

Alice Dunbar-Nelson: I had not...

I had not thought of violets of late,
The wild, shy kind that springs beneath your feet
In wistful April...

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Alice Dunbar-Nelson: I sit and...

Alice Dunbar-Nelson: I sit and...

I sit and sew -- a useless task it seems,
My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams . ....

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Audre Lorde: I am deliberate...

Audre Lorde: I am deliberate...

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Bette Davis: Discipline is a...

Bette Davis: Discipline is a...

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too...

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Marsha Norman: People do think...

Marsha Norman: People do think...

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear...

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Charlotte Bronte: Men judge us...

Charlotte Bronte: Men judge us...

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

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Emma Lazarus: His cup is...

Emma Lazarus: His cup is...

His cup is gall, his meat is tears,
His passion lasts a thousand years.


Source:...

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