What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective familytells us that those who need help are ultimately… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Try and have neutral compassion toward the perpetrator. Step outside the sting of the incident and realize that this person is trying… — Monica Lewinsky Copy Share Image
It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
It is cruel and insensitive to interpret an affair as a symptom of sickness in the relationship, as it leaves the 'cheated-on'… — Dossie Easton Copy Share Image
Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to… — Confucius Copy Share Image
As Harvard developmental psychologist Robert Kegan, who has studied Bridgewater, says, in most work places everyone is working two jobs. The first… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities,… — William James Copy Share Image
