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"Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black."
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"There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price."
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"Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission."
Time
"At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else."
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"Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."
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"Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black."
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"When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses."
Morality
"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."
Earth
"I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential."
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"The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves."
Time
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."
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"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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"Being is more important than doing."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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