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Mary McLeod Bethune

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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
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when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
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To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
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More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
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That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
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Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
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The sad heart needs work to do.
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
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To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
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Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD
Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
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To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
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It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people...
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How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
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How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda...
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Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected...
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Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug...
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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
OSCAR WILDE
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
OSCAR WILDE
Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
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To be a leader, take action and be an example. To be an adviser, be wise.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
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if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
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Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n...
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Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
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I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif...
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Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
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Human is what he decides to be.
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Because I want to be remembered.
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So this is going to be drill!?
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If you can BE your way through it, you can find your way to it.
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People know your tragedies and they treat you like
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There's nothing stupid about wanting to be loved. Believe me.
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For me, happiness is waking up excited even though you have no particular place to go…..
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stop looking for job, create one.
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Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
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Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.
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Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
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The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
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When there is no reason to be happy, that's all the reason you need to happy
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Bethune was a ...
LARRY HANNANT I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
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The game is meant to be fun.
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You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).'
Emma Darwin to husban...
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It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery...
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It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
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I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
I judge the world by my own lights
and I come by my own hand.
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The gamecock proudly stepped into the slaughterhouse.
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If you don’t have a goal and don’t know where you want to be and when you want be there. You are...
AHMED ALI ANJUM
I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.
ELIZABETH REASER
Tell me why it feels like you're a part of my soul?
CASSANDRA GIOVANNI
Dare for a greater life, you will get it.
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Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
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The best way to be happy is to be kind to someone.
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Without thee I am all unblessed, And wholly blessed in thee alone.
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Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria...
MARY BERRY
I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn&#...
MARY BERRY
I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes...
MARY BERRY
To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary natu...
MARY WEBB
In my end is my beginning.
MARY STUART
You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
MARY SCHMICH
'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
MARY SCHMICH
For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
MARY SCHMICH
TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no...
MARY SCHMICH
The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
MARY SCHMICH
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
MARY SCHMICH
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
MARY SCHMICH
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w...
MARY SCHMICH
In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n...
MARY SCHMICH
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
MARY SCHMICH
Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and...
MARY SCHMICH
On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p...
MARY SCHMICH
I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew...
MARY SCHMICH
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha...
MARY SCHMICH
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ...
MARY SCHMICH
Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air...
MARY SCHMICH
Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye...
MARY BERRY
Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
MARY CHENEY
One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ...
MARY BARRA
I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O...
MARY BERRY
When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that...
MARY BARRA
If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
MARY BERRY
I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan...
MARY BERRY
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J...
MARY BUCKLEY
The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we...
MARY MCDOWELL
Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTY
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY
Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci...
MARY KARR
But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhi...
MARY SHELLEY
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
MARY STEWART
Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are...
MARY DOUGLAS
When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.&#...
MARY MATALIN
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY
There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a gene...
MARY AUSTIN
When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of he...
MARY AUSTIN
Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.
MARY AUSTIN