Quote by Jessamyn West
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one st

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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It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. – Jessamyn West

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Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free. – Jessamyn West

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Death
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work. – Iain Duncan Smith

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I put &pound150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back &pound1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success. – Jeffrey Archer

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Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes. – Knute Rockne

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If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base thats religious and theyre going to come see you when youre in that town, once your radio success is gone and youre not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows. – Jason Aldean

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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I gave in, and admitted that God was God. – C. S. Lewis

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An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth – in short, materialism – does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited. – E. F. Schumacher

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I always believe its better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do. – Trevor Nunn

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