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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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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. – 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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. – Henry A. Kissinger

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For someone whos had the level of success Ive had, theres been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating. – Billy Corgan

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Im starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities arent amending theyre shifting. – Brendan Fraser

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To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success. – Henry J. Heinz

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Everything is politics. – Thomas Mann

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Gossip is easy, politics is hard. – Tabitha Soren

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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are. – William Ellery Channing

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I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication; after which time, I submit them to your wisdom. – John Adams

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