"I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are."

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Elizabeth Lesser

#Memories Quotes #Trying Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“Maybe our Earth is totally alone in the universe.”
“The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.”
“How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.”
“Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis ...”
“The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.”

Source : Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.89, University of Chicago Press
“I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.”
“The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini.”
“Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!”

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