"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"
-Phyllis McGinley
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"Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.“
-Phyllis McGinley
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"Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause."
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"In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime."
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"Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure."
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"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful."
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"Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone."
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"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not."
-Stanley Fish
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"Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training."
-Harrison Salisbury
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"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
-Abraham Cowley
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"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science."
-George Andrew Olah
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"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
-Carl Clinton Van Doren
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"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"
-Will Harvey
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