The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded...

Audre Lorde

I might have been your happiness, and became your misfortune. I am the cause of your death, for if I had been a different man, if I had not been wanting in all principles, all foundations of life, there would not have come upon you the shocks that killed you.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

John McCain, if you liked the last eight, you are going to love the next four.

James Carville

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Herbert Spencer

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

Rush Limbaugh

I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.

Jerry Seinfeld

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Charles Buxton

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Grace Hopper

I did my best, and God did the rest.

Hattie McDaniel

Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.

David Puttnam