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RUTH BADER GINSBURG So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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RUTH BADER GINSBURG Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
RUTH BADER GINSBURG Dissents speak to a future age.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.
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RUTH BADER GINSBURG Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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RUTH BADER GINSBURG Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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BABE RUTH Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
BABE RUTH All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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BABE RUTH I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
BABE RUTH Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
BABE RUTH Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
BABE RUTH As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if ...
BABE RUTH Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.
RUTH OZEKI There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can b...
RUTH REICHL When you label someone 'up and coming' or 'the new breakout,' there's this kind ...
RUTH NEGGA You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be abl...
RUTH SMELTZER All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imaginatio...
RUTH ROSS I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thi...
RUTH WILSON I love to make pies - pot pies, quiches, savory tarts, fruit pies. I use an old-fashioned pastry ble...
RUTH REICHL We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we fe...
RUTH RENDELL It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
BABE RUTH We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.
RUTH ROSS Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
RUTH GRAHAM A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.
RUTH BEECHICK It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
BABE RUTH You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
BABE RUTH To be somebody you must last.
RUTH GORDON The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individua...
BABE RUTH There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
RUTH ROSS Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.
RUTH HUBBARD Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy...
RUTH MORGAN Watch my dust.
BABE RUTH In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.
RUTH ROSS In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day...
RUTH BENEDICT To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people t...
RUTH GORDON Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their bre...
RUTH STOUT Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must tak...
RUTH BENEDICT No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs an...
RUTH BENEDICT If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves...
RUTH BENEDICT A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself active...
RUTH BENEDICT We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
RUTH BENEDICT Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
RUTH BENEDICT The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of th...
RUTH GORDON To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the...
RUTH HUBBARD