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• It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Work, Women, Night

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.8, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Inspirational, Stopping, Goes On

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.14, Grove Press

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• Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, History, World

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• The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Women, Character, Race

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• If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

  Erma Bombeck

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?”, p.151, Open Road Media

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• Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Travel, Adventure, Carpe Diem

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.85, Vintage

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• If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

  Joyce Brothers

  Women, Goes On, Juliet

  "The Shakespeare Book of Lists : The Ultimate Guide to the Bard, His Plays, and How They'Ve Been Interpreted (And Misinterpreted) Through the Ages". Book by Michael Lomonico, 2001.

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• Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

  Joyce Brothers

  Inspirational, Listening To Others, Empathy

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang (p. 469), 2006.

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• Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Moon, Language And Power, Tides

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.58, Bantam

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• If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Sexy, Math, Men

  "Sudden Death". Book by Rita Mae Brown, 1983.

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• I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Inspirational, Teacher, Women

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  Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  "Know Your Limits - Then Ignore Them". Book by John Mason, August 1999.

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• Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.

  Leo Burnett

  Inspirational, Success, Fun

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• Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

  Barbara Bush

  Generosity, Giving, Mind

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• Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

  Jimmy Carter

  Nice, Patriotic, Technology

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• We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

  Jimmy Carter

  Veterans Day, Peace, Children

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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  We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

  Jimmy Carter

  Peace, War, Racism

  Jimmy Carter, United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration, Gerald R. Ford (1978). “The Presidential campaign, 1976”

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• If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

  Jimmy Carter

  Dollars, Benefits, Globalization

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• There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

  Kate Chopin

  Water, People, Literature

  Kate Chopin (2005). “The Awakening - Literary Touchstone”, p.142, Prestwick House Inc

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• The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

  Agatha Christie

  Time, Book, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

  Agatha Christie

  Trust, Money, Concerned

  Agatha Christie (1992). “Endless Night”, HarperCollins

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• I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

  Agatha Christie

  Mother, Thinking, Laziness

  Agatha Christie (1990). “An autobiography”

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