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Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.
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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
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Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
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Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
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Power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.
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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
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The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
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The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.
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The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
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The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
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The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in despair.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.
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The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
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The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. [Gone With The Wind]
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The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
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