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Susan B. Anthony

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LOUISE SLAUGHTER Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women d...
MADELEINE M. KUNIN If you always try to be cautious and careful, you will never impress anyone.
M.F. MOONZAJER People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find mys...
HENRY ROLLINS I can bring about change. The people have spoken and their voices must be heard,
GEORGE WEAH Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did more to emancipate women than any other single thing. The...
SUSAN VREELAND Over the last few years Social Security has come under attack ... The President and Congress must pl...
ERIC GRAY But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way ...
EDMOND ABOUT It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the coun...
EDMOND ABOUT I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians,...
EDMOND ABOUT I fight fairly, and in good faith.
EDMOND ABOUT Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
EDMOND ABOUT Could you please be as silent as the G in lasagna?
ABOUT LIFE Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
ABOUT LIFE I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too.
ABOUT LIFE I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo...
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EDMOND ABOUT I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. Y...
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ARIANTHE STETTNER Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the societ...
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SALVADOR DALI Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the societ...
SALVADOR DALí Pregressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the societ...
ANGELA Y. DAVIS The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to prese...
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UNKNOWN As people spend more time in their cars, they need to be more cautious about what kinds of chemicals...
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GIULIO SCALINGER The report will talk more about rural China and other conflicts within the economy, such as income r...
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ALAN WONG They have to keep their record books and think about their goals — it's not just a horse standing i...
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TAMRON HALL The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
CESAR CHAVEZ These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplom...
EDWARD SNOWDEN They want more detail about where the money goes. I see them as more informed investors who want to ...
DAVID KENNEDY My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never list...
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LINDSEY GRAHAM I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like...
JACKI WEAVER So I'm not about to apologize for loving all these things about you, no matter the reasons or the ci...
COLLEEN HOOVER The reinvention process always brings with it the requirement to spend money for upgrading the store...
BILL BISHOP Of course, women can bring to the work of law-making, as their special share, their experience and k...
EDITH ROGERS The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the ...
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GARY JOHNSON I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions abou...
LAURA WASSER We are not wired to bury our children. It was rough. Dick and Susan always will have a hole in their...
DON OHLMEYER People like to talk about their hometowns and their travels, and the more places you've been, th...
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BOBBY MCFERRIN Keep within the requisite limits a standing military force, always remembering that an armed and tra...
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LYNN COLLINS When two brothers are busy fighting, an evil man can easily attack and rob their poor mother. Mankin...
SUZY KASSEM Law never is, but is always about to be.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.
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B. B. KING The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
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B. B. KING I never use that word, retire.
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B. B. KING I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
B. B. KING I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
B. B. KING I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. KING I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
B. B. KING If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ...
B. B. KING There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approa...
SUSAN ORLEAN Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in th...
SUSAN POWTER At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succ...
SUSAN WOJCICKI Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and m...
SUSAN VREELAND Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on th...
SUSAN ORLEAN A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder...
SUSAN ORLEAN My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug...
SUSAN HAYWARD When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of c...
SUSAN MINOT To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, ...
SUSAN ORLEAN I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.
SUSAN VASS A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considere...
SUSAN SONTAG The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
SUSAN SONTAG The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write...
SUSAN SONTAG Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we...
SUSAN ERTZ Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also im...
SUSAN COLLINS My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natu...
SUSAN EGAN One of the things I was hoping to do in the Secretary of the State's Office when I came was to p...
SUSAN BYSIEWICZ I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster w...
SUSAN ORLEAN The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm t...
SUSAN RICE I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much ...
SUSAN ESTRICH My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island ...
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