Category: writer
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When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
Charles Dickens
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George Eliot
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George Eliot
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We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got.
Peter Drucker
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An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say ‘Gentlemen’ to the person with whom he is conversing.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
Virginia Woolf
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I think America has always been polarized.
Alice Walker
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Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.
Alice Walker