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Gloria Steinem

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BILL KRISTOL Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and...
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VIKRMN I write every day, on some days 10 or eleven hours, but sometimes only three hours, it depends if I ...
JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of ha...
ARISTOTLE A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it ag...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it a...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER It depends on what day or time of day the request is made, the work load at the time and the size of...
LAURIE MCKAGER A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper d...
HANIEL LONG Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper d...
JOHN LOCKE The future of the Earth and our life depends on children of today. Our feature depends on how we are...
ABDUS SALAM It totally depends on what the landscape is. A lot of people are quite unsure of what they're doing.
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F. L. LUCAS Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your det...
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WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightl...
WALTER BENJAMIN This world isn't a battlefield. Someday you will realise how your success depends on a bunch of othe...
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER One swallow does not make a summer,
neither does one fine day;
similarly one day or brief...
ARISTOTLE Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.
TORI AMOS The present is in the past and that's where it Belongs, So move the fuck on
CAMERON WORRALL Every Dog has a day and every human has a life. It all depends on what you want to be. The strange t...
ROY Soul development depends on attachment and bonding. Every brain and body is genetically wired to dev...
MICHAEL GURIAN The destiny of future generations depends on our action today
SUNDAY ADELAJA The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.
GEORGE EASTMAN All of us who work in law enforcement want to keep people safe. That is the heart of our jobs; it is...
JEFF SESSIONS Treasure means nothing unless it is discovered and even then the value depends entirely on who disco...
JOANNA MOJA I love you, Allie. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Doesn't matter what other people do. The only competition you should beat is yourself. So strive to ...
SHEILA DELA PENA Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what yo...
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GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE Every person needs to take one day away.  A day in which one consciously separates the past from th...
MAYA ANGELOU If the future depends on stories, then our future looks bright indeed.
PAWAN MISHRA A mistake does not make a shadow. The people who you hurt through the mistake and what they decide t...
JUSTIN DAVID NEVINS The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of movin...
ROGER ROSENBLATT On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
OSCAR WILDE Every movement reveals us.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after yea...
SUSAN SONTAG The [President Gloria Macapagal-]Arroyo regime is desperately isolated from the people and is only t...
GREGORIO ROSAL The future depends upon what we do in the present.
MAHATMA GANDHI Every dollar the Federal Government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us wi...
RONALD REAGAN Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't mer...
C.S. LEWIS Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't m...
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MIKE PARDON Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.
GLORIA STEINEM If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
RICHARD BACH Every day is a choice to keep moving forward. If done so, then every night is a victory.
HANNAH MAGNO The purpose of each of us is to die leaving our future.
SORIN CERIN What I hear every day on talk radio is America's lack of education - and I don't mean lack o...
DONELLA MEADOWS A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and...
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AMANDA GONSALVES I'm not sure, ... Every day is a different day. It depends on how it feels. If it gets better, I wil...
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EPHDAN The future depends on attitude, aptitude, and gratitude--not on knowledge.
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GLORIA STEINEM . . . as for logic, it's in the eye of the logician.
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GLORIA STEINEM Or perhaps it's "activist," but on environmental and economic problems, without understanding that p...
GLORIA STEINEM Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with stat...
GLORIA STEINEM If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.
GLORIA STEINEM We need to unlearn our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves. It'...
GLORIA STEINEM Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the ...
GLORIA STEINEM The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors...
GLORIA STEINEM The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
GLORIA STEINEM Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.
GLORIA STEINEM If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on...
GLORIA STEINEM Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and come...
GLORIA STEINEM Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individu...
GLORIA STEINEM Rich People plan for three generations
Poor people plan for Saturday night
GLORIA STEINEM Laughter is a rescue. p.204
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