"Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world."

-- Melinda Gates

#Life Quotes #Positive Quotes #Success Quotes

“My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised”
“Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like land birds, unable to fly far from their own shores. To provide resting places for them, where they can coal and repair, would be one of the first duties of a government proposing to itself the development of the power of the nation at sea.”

Source : Alfred Thayer Mahan (2010). “Sea Power and World History: 1660-1783”, p.48, Fireship Press
“I can't do this anymore," I cried, "Why won't you just leave me alone?" Because you would never leave me.”

Source : Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.452, Hachette UK
“When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora's box. "What! all!" said the Prince. "Yes, all." "No," said the Prince; "curiosity must have been without.”
“We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.”
“People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.”
“To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.”
“If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy then commends us, and extols us beyond reason to those upon whom we depend, till they grow jealous, and so blow us up when they cannot throw us down.”

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