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One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
- George Bernard Shaw

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
- Benjamin Franklin

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
- Mark Twain

I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
- Abraham Lincoln

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
- John F. Kennedy

Doris Lessing Quotes and Quotations

Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.

- Doris Lessing | Maturity Quotes

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

- Doris Lessing | Happiness Quotes

What matters most is that we learn from living.

- Doris Lessing | Happiness Quotes

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

- Doris Lessing | Friendship Quotes

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

- Doris Lessing | Goals Quotes

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

- Doris Lessing | Action Quotes

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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

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