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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
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I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.
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