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Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

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What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

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But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in. ↗

— Mel Torme

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The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all. ↗

— Anne Smedley

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There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading. ↗

— Anne Smedley

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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