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  • Betty Friedan If women's role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.
    The Fountain of Age
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Alfred Korzybski If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.
    Alfred Korzybski
    Polish-American independent scholar (1879 - 1950)
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  • Günter Grass If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Elmore Leonard If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.
    Elmore Leonard
    American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (1925 - 2013)
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  • Hesiod If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • Gloria Steinem If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bruce Lee If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Burgess Owens If you apologize to me, I look at it as an insult because my parents, my grandparents, my great-grandparents, like every other culture out there, did exactly what they needed to do. They worked hard, and they became part of the American way, and they earned the respect of Americans across the board. We need to do the same.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Fran Lebowitz If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Mike Ditka If you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.
    Mike Ditka
    American football player, coach and commentator (1939 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • Brad Feld If you are feeling some December blues, or even depression, don't fight it. Instead, do something for yourself. Be reflective. Let the emotions exist. And be encouraged that, like me, you can get to a better place, but it can take time.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Theresa May If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.
    Theresa May
    British politician (1956 - )
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  • Arlen Specter If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Antonio Porchia If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Carolyn See If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip 'Gillespie and I.' If you'd like to know a little more about the seamy side of the human condition, by all means, pick this one up.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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