Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.
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Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.
The most deadly disease truly is the failure of the heart.
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.
We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.
While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.
wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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