"Success breeds confidence."

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Source : Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

Beryl Markham

#Strong Women Quotes #Strong Quotes

“I always believe your instinct is the most correct instinct.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.”
“A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.”

Source : George Ade (1903). “People You Know”
“I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.”
“I'm a holy man minus the holiness.”
“We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.”
“In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.”
“Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No. 4' read: 'Generalizing beyond one's data'. [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether it would not be more correct to word question no. 4 'Not generalizing beyond one's data.”

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