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Quote by Jessamyn West
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. – Jessamyn West

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There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. – Jessamyn West

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communication
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Jessamyn West
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In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? – Jessamyn West

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Success
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With copious evidence ranging from Platos haughtiness to Beethovens tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot. – Stephen Jay Gould

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History

I did not come to NASA to make history. – Sally Ride

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History

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. – Leo Tolstoy

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History

World history is tragic. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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History

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The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. – William Hazlitt

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We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery. – Donald Evans

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If I like myself at this weight, then this is what Im going to be. I dont have an eating disorder. – Courteney Cox

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When you see yourself quoted in print and you’re sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation. – Laurence J. Peter, Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Times, 1977

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