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- The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
- Alice Walker (1944 - ), Living by the Word, 1988
- Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 4, 1944-1947
- Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), My Religion, 1927
- The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
- Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976
- I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Anthem, 1946
- Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
- Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart, 1989
- I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.
- Susan Glaspell, The Visioning, 1911
- Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
- It is only the first step that is difficult.
- Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763
- The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
- Ivy Baker Priest, in Parade, 1958
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