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There is a growing strength in women, but it's in the forehead, not in the forearm.
Women
Beverly Sills

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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Effort
Beverly Sills

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Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness.
Writers and Writing
Georges Simenon

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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
Originality
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
Bureaucracy
Sitting Bull

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I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.
Patience
Dame Edith Sitwell

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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Modesty
Dame Edith Sitwell

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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
Vulgarity
Dame Edith Sitwell

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
Marriage
Red Skelton

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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Thoughts and Thinking
B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner

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I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
Expectation
Mary Decker Slaney

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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Love
Alexander Smith

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
Work
Dr. Walter Smith

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Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
Writers and Writing
Dr. Walter Smith

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You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.
Children
Gypsy Smith

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Books - Reading
Logan Pearsall Smith

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What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
Writers and Writing
Logan Pearsall Smith

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Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory.
Glory
Sydney Smith

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Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Poverty and The Poor
Sydney Smith

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What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
Mathematics
Sydney Smith

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A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself.
Defeat
Jan Christian Smuts

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I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.
Voice
Tom Snyder

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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Friends and Friendship
Socrates

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Dishonesty
Socrates

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I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Humankind
Socrates

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun