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Lecturer Inspirational Quotes (1887)

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I would say don't worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.
Gloria Steinem
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Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being.
Frederic Henry Hedge
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem
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The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Herman Melville
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Feminism is not antisexuality. On the contrary. It says that sexuality shouldn't be confused with violence and dominance and that it should be a matter of free choice. It shouldn't be forced on you by economics, including dependence on a husband, or by pressure.
Gloria Steinem
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The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive
Joseph Campbell
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The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.
Gloria Steinem
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When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing
Maria Montessori
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There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.
Maria Montessori
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Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence.
Maria Montessori
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There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.
Joseph Campbell
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There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.
Herman Melville
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Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
Herman Melville
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The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.
Maria Montessori
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We need to return and go forward to the understanding that there is God in all living things, not more in men than women, and not more in humans than in nature. To believe otherwise is only an excuse for dominating women and nature.
Gloria Steinem
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It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
Gloria Steinem
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
Herman Melville
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Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths: so, indeed, does life.
Joseph Campbell
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Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.
Gloria Steinem
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I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman
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It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.
Frederick Winslow Taylor
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world
Joseph Campbell
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My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or insanity: for the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspected Aladdin caves.
Joseph Campbell
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